T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S 1 INTRODUCTION 7 1.1 PURPOSE 7 1.2 SCOPE 7 1.3 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS 7 1.4 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 7 1.5 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS 7 2 USER's GUIDE 9 2.1 OVERVIEW 9 2.2 PROTOCOL FOR FORWARDING EXTERNAL MESSAGES 9 2.3 FORWARDING OF EVENT MESSAGES TO EXTERNAL PROCESSES 10 2.4 ERROR HANDLING 10 2.5 PCO COMMANDS 10 2.6 EXAMPLES 14 2.6.1 Issuing MIDAS Commands 14 2.6.2 Writing a MIDAS Key 15 2.6.3 Reading a MIDAS Key 15 2.6.4 Attaching an External Process on an Event 15 2.6.5 Detaching an External Process 16 2.6.6 Application Programming with PCO 16 2.7 PCO FEATURES 19 2.7.1 PCO Applications 19 2.7.2 PCO Functions 19 3 REFERENCE 21 3.1 PCO APPLICATIONS 21 3.2 PCO FUNCTIONS 25 4 INSTALLATION 33 4.1 REQUIREMENTS 33 4.2 INSTALLATION VERIFICATION TEST 33 5 ERROR MESSAGES 35 A INCLUDE FILE 39 B COMMAND DEFINITION 43
