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NBS_FIND -- Routines that find noticeboards and items within noticeboards

Items can be found either by name or by position. When a noticeboard is found a private copy of its item descriptors is made in which all non NIL pointers are relocated by the virtual address of the start of the relevant noticeboard. Thus, once a noticeboard has been found, all information pertaining to it can in fact be accessed using standard C structures.

NBS_FIND_NOTICEBOARD:
Find a named noticeboard and return an identifier to it
NBS_FIND_ITEM:
Find an item with a specified name contained in a structure associated with a specified identifier and return the located item's ID
NBS_FIND_NTH_ITEM:
Find the Nth item contained in a structure associated with a specified identifier and return the located item'sID


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NBS The Noticeboard System
Starlink User Note 77
D.J. Allan
11 September 1995
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk