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

    The Begin Batching of Pasteboard Updates routine saves, or
    batches, all output to a pasteboard until a matching call to
    SMG$END_PASTEBOARD_UPDATE is encountered.

    Format

      SMG$BEGIN_PASTEBOARD_UPDATE  pasteboard-id

1 - Returns

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

2 - Argument

 pasteboard-id

    OpenVMS usage:identifier
    type:         longword (unsigned)
    access:       read only
    mechanism:    by reference

    Specifies the pasteboard for which output is to be batched. The
    pasteboard-id argument is the address of an unsigned longword
    that contains the pasteboard identifier.

    The pasteboard identifier is returned by SMG$CREATE_PASTEBOARD.