Creating the Noticeboard

Having defined the noticeboard contents, the actual noticeboard must be created. There are three ways of doing this, depending on whether the definition is being read from a file, the definition plus data is being read from a file (this is illustrated in Section 3.7), or the noticeboard is being created in memory.

Restore the noticeboard definition from a file and create the noticeboard ...

      NBS_RESTORE_DEFINITION (`AUTOFIB',            ! Noticeboard name
                              `AUTOFIB',            ! Name of noticeboard file
                              STATUS)

...or, instead of issuing the above NBS_END_DEFINITION call, issue this one.

      NBS_END_DEFINITION     (`AUTOFIB',            ! Noticeboard name
                              `CREATE_NOTICEBOARD', ! Don't write a file
                              STATUS)

• Regardless of which method is used, the situation is the same after either of these calls. The former would normally be used if the noticeboard definition had been compiled earlier by another program and the latter would be used if the noticeboard had just been defined and if no noticeboard definition file was required.
• The noticeboard now exists and is owned by this process. All items in it have an actual size of zero and a modified count of zero.