If the procedures recommended in this document have been adhered to, stand-alone applications which use the Message and Error Reporting Systems can be converted to run within the ADAM environment without change to the message and error reporting code. However, the use of the Message and Error Systems within ADAM applications provides access to facilities which cannot exist in the stand-alone version. This section describes these facilities and how they can be used. In what follows, a prior knowledge of ADAM applications programming to the level of SG/4 (ADAM - The Starlink Software Environment) is assumed.
MERS (MSG and ERR) Message and Error Reporting Systems