☜	MWAPI - Characters Annotations					☞

chars

Introduced in the 1995 M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer’s Interface.

This metalanguage symbol represents a sequence of zero or more characters.

linend

Introduced in the 1995 M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer’s Interface.

This metalanguage symbol represents the internal encoding for "end of line" within a routine. Although the standard does not specify how a routine should be stored internally in a system, the standard does specify that the data stream created for routine interchange between implementations should encode the "end of line" as a Carriage Return followed by a Line Feed.

longchars

Introduced in the 1995 M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer’s Interface.

This metalanguage symbol represents a sequence of zero or more characters.

For portability, the number of characters for the text value of a document gadget is limited to 32,767 characters.

mnemonichar

Introduced in the 1995 M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer’s Interface.

This metalanguage symbol represents the ampersand character ("&").

noncommachars

Introduced in the 1995 M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer’s Interface.

This metalanguage symbol represents a sequence of zero or more characters, excluding the comma.

tab

Introduced in the 1995 M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer’s Interface.

This metalanguage symbol represents the horizontal tabulation control character (HT, $Char(9)).

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