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From: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug Or Feature
Message-ID: <879@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 18:28:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.879
Posted: Fri Jul 24 18:28:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 17:52:15 EDT
References: <870721110411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu> <703@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Organization: Ball State University UCS, Muncie, IN
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In article <703@uhccux.UUCP> helen@uhccux.UUCP (Helen Rapozo) writes:
> ...
>I know that there is a way to have SYS$ANNOUNCE to point to a filename
>and that will allow you to have a much bigger announcement before the
>USERNAME prompt

Yes, but it is not a normal logical name. (ala SYS$SYLOGIN, etc.)  You must
precede the filename in the logical with an @ sign.  For example to make
the announcement message come from SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT, SYS$ANNOUNCE
would have to be "@SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT".
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