This field is used to specify the word that the user uses to communicate with a particular action. Thus the user could specify:INTERFACE FILTASK . ACTION GET_FILTER KEYWORD FIND_FILTER OBEY NEEDS FILTER IN 'R', 'I', 'J' NEEDS DEAD_TIME RANGE 1.0, 5.5 ENDOBEY . ENDACTION . ENDINTERFACE
As can be seen, this completes the separation between the program's view of actions and the user's view of them. It is possible for the programmer to re-write the program using completely different action names, but the user command could be kept the same by just changing the ACTION statements in the Interface File. Similarly the user's view of the program can be changed by just changing the action KEYWORD fields.ICL> send filtask obey find_filter
If the KEYWORD field is not specified for an action, then the system will use the action name as the keyword.
ADAM Interface Module Reference Manual