VMS Help MESSAGE, /OBJECT, Examples  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    1.$ MESSAGE COBOLMSG

      This MESSAGE command creates the message object module
      COBOLMSG.OBJ by compiling the message source file COBOLMSG.MSG.
      The default qualifier /OBJECT is implied.

    2.$ MESSAGE/FILE_NAME=COBOLMF /OBJECT=MESPNTR COBOLMSG

      This MESSAGE command creates the object module MESPNTR.OBJ,
      which contains a pointer to the nonexecutable message file
      COBOLMF.EXE.