Modifying PLOT’s Message File

By default, PLOT uses its internally defined messages at relevant stages of its processing operations. If you wish to display different messages, such as messages in a different language, you can copy the standard messages into a file, edit them, and then use this file as the source of future messages.

• To copy PLOT's default messages into a file, enter the plot -message command.

  This copies the messages into the file PLOT.MF in the current directory. You may then edit this file to change the wording of any of the messages.

  When PLOT needs to output a message, it looks for the file PLOT.MF, first in the directory defined by the CADC_PLOT_DIR environment variable, then in the current directory. It finds neither file it uses its own default message definitions.