CPACK - build a text message with tally.

Usage:

cpack  (string)[,option]

Where:

(string)

is a string of characters enclosed in parentheses. This string defines the text of the message.

option

is an optional second argument used to build a tally that describes something slightly different than the contents of "string". It must be one of the following:

MORE

Use of this keyword indicates that the message text is not completely supplied in "string", and is continued on the following CPACK instruction.

+adjust

An option of the form "+value" or "-value" is used to adjust the length field in the tally by some amount. This is used principally to add one extra to the length. For a continued CPACK, this is only used on the last CPACK of the set.

Description:

CPACK assembles at the current location a tallyb describing the string of characters that is its argument. The actual characters of the string are assembled under location counter "errtxt". The characters from all CPACK macros in the assembly are collected and packed together. Thus the character string from a CPACK starts at the next available character position.

See Also:

expl b bmac character

for a description of the escape sequences that can be used in the definition of the string.

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