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Creating the Noticeboard

Having defined the noticeboard contents, the actual noticeboard must be created. There are three ways of doing this, depending on whether the definition is being read from a file, the definition plus data is being read from a file (this is illustrated in Section 3.7), or the noticeboard is being created in memory.

Restore the noticeboard definition from a file and create the noticeboard ...

      NBS_RESTORE_DEFINITION (`AUTOFIB',            ! Noticeboard name
                              `AUTOFIB',            ! Name of noticeboard file
                              STATUS)

...or, instead of issuing the above NBS_END_DEFINITION call, issue this one.

      NBS_END_DEFINITION     (`AUTOFIB',            ! Noticeboard name
                              `CREATE_NOTICEBOARD', ! Don't write a file
                              STATUS)



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NBS The Noticeboard System
Starlink User Note 77
D.J. Allan
11 September 1995
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk