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☜ | OMI- Global Reference1995 Version of ANSI (Equivalent to Current ISO Version) of Standard | ☞ |
4.1 describes the environment, the global variable name (gvn) and the lock argument (nref) that appear in many OMI messages, where they have the following form, called a global reference.
A global reference shall be a long string <LS>. Its fields shall be strings containing the environment, global name and subscripts.
Note – The protocol does not support MUMPS naked references. The agent shall send full references for all operations.
The fields of the global reference and their sequence shall be:
Note – The number of subscripts is implied by the length of the entire global reference, a long string <LS>.
<LS> | <SS> | <SS> | <SS> | . . . | ||||
<LI> | Environment | <SI> | Name | <SI> | Sub 1 | <SI> | Sub 2 |
Figure 4 – Form of global reference
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