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From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff)
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Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug Or Feature
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Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 08:12:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 22 08:12:31 1987
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>I found out today that while you can make the logical name SYS$ANNOUNCE
>point to a string as big as 255 characters, once that string exceeds
>128 characters, the LOGINOUT system no longer uses it (you end up with
>no announcement prior to username: prompt). This is STUPID! I'm generating
>a rather long SYS$ANNOUNCE string with embedded s and s to give
>some useful info at login and DEC contradicts itself. Geez.

That's why there's such a thing as 'SYS$MANAGER:WELCOME.TXT' or
whatever you might call it.  After a person logs in, and is executing
(not by choice) SYLOGIN.COM, there can be a TYPE command to display a
text file with 'useful info at login.'

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