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MESSAGE, /FILE_NAME
*Conan The Librarian
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Specifies whether the object module contains a pointer to a file
containing message data.
Format
/FILE_NAME=file-spec
/NOFILE_NAME
file-spec
Identifies a nonexecutable message file. The default device and
directory for the file specification is SYS$MESSAGE and the
default file type is .EXE. No wildcard characters are allowed
in the file specification.
1.$ MESSAGE COBOLMSG
This MESSAGE command creates the message object module
COBOLMSG.OBJ by compiling the message source file COBOLMSG.MSG.
The default qualifier /NOFILE_NAME is implied.
2.$ MESSAGE/FILE_NAME=COBOLMF COBOLMSG
This MESSAGE command creates a message pointer file
COBOLMSG.OBJ, which contains a pointer to the nonexecutable
message file SYS$MESSAGE:COBOLMF.EXE.