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From: helen@uhccux.UUCP (Helen Rapozo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug Or Feature
Message-ID: <703@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 01:07:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: uhccux.703
Posted: Fri Jul 24 01:07:18 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:55:52 EDT
References: <870721110411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Summary: You can point to a filename

In article <870721110411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu>, zar@XHMEIA.Caltech.EDU (Daniel M. Zirin) writes:
> 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.

I know that there is a way to have SYS$ANNOUNCE to point to a filename
and that will allow you to have a much bigger announcement before the
USERNAME prompt