Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!XHMEIA.Caltech.EDU!zar From: zar@XHMEIA.Caltech.EDU (Daniel M. Zirin) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug Or Feature Message-ID: <870721110411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 14:04:11 EDT Article-I.D.: XHMEIA.870721110411.016 Posted: Tue Jul 21 14:04:11 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 01:42:19 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 9 I found out today that while you can make the logical name SYS$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 embeddeds and s to give some useful info at login and DEC contradicts itself. Geez. From The Great Zar