Envoy ACP/XF Application Programming Manual
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System Procedure Call Specifics for 
EnvoyACP/XF
This section describes EnvoyACP/XF-specific information for Guardian file-system 
procedures. For complete information see the Guardian Procedure Calls Reference 
Manual.
Table 4-1
 lists the file procedures that your application can use to interact with 
EnvoyACP/XF, bit-synchronous, data-communication lines.
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Table 4-1. File-system Procedures Used With EnvoyACP/XF
AWAITIO[X] Completes a previously initiated I/O operation on an 
EnvoyACP/XF line.
CANCEL Cancel the oldest incomplete operation on a nowait file.
CANCELREQ Cancels a specific incomplete operation on a nowait file.
CHANGELIST Controls polling when the application program is acting as a 
supervisor or tributary station in a centralized multipoint 
configuration.
CLOSE Terminates access to the specified communications line. 
(Same as FILE_CLOSE_.)
CONTROL Initiates a protocol-dependent control operation.
DEFINELIST Specifies all tributary station addresses in the entire 
multipoint configuration for supervisor applications. Specifies 
the station addresses to which that particular tributary will 
respond for tributary applications.
FILE_CLOSE_ Terminates access to the specified communications line. 
(Same as CLOSE.)
FILE_GETINFO_ Obtains information concerning the last error and 
configuration information for an opened line.
FILE_GETINFOBY
NAME_
Obtains the configured device type and general information 
about the specified line.
FILE_OPEN_ Obtains access to the specified communications line. (Same 
as OPEN.)
OPEN Obtains access to the specified communications line. (Same 
as FILE_OPEN_.)
READ[X] Accepts one incoming frame and returns data and/or a two-
byte Message Control Word (MCW) to the specified 
application buffer.










