VMS Help RTL Routines, LIB$, LIB$CHAR  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The Transform Byte to First Character of String routine
    transforms a single 8-bit ASCII character to an ASCII string
    consisting of a single character followed by trailing spaces, if
    needed, to fill out the string. The range of the input byte is 0
    through 255.

    Format

      LIB$CHAR  one-character-string ,ascii-code

1 - Returns

    OpenVMS usage:cond_value
    type:         longword (unsigned)
    access:       write only
    mechanism:    by value

2 - Arguments

 one-character-string

    OpenVMS usage:char_string
    type:         character string
    access:       write only
    mechanism:    by descriptor

    ASCII character string consisting of a single character followed
    by trailing spaces, if needed, that LIB$CHAR creates when it
    transforms the ASCII character code. The one-character-string
    argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the character
    string that LIB$CHAR writes.

 ascii-code

    OpenVMS usage:byte_unsigned
    type:         byte (unsigned)
    access:       read only
    mechanism:    by reference

    Single 8-bit ASCII character code that LIB$CHAR transforms to
    an ASCII string. The ascii-code argument is the address of an
    unsigned byte containing the ASCII character code.