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- Description:
Mark a container file for deletion and annul the locator
associated with the top-level object. The container file will
not be physically deleted if other primary locators are still
associated with the file - this is only done when the reference
count drops to zero.
- Invocation:
CALL HDS_ERASE( LOC, STATUS )
- Arguments:
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LOC = CHARACTER * ( DAT__SZLOC ) (Given)
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Locator to the container file's top-level object.
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STATUS = INTEGER (Given and Returned)
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The global status.
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HDS Hierarchical Data System
Starlink User Note 92
R.F. Warren-Smith & M.D. Lawden
23rd February 1999
E-mail:rfws@star.rl.ac.uk
Copyright (C) 1999 Central Laboratory of the Research Councils