Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!mhg From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug Or Feature Message-ID: <8707221212.AA17899@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 08:12:31 EDT Article-I.D.: mitre-be.8707221212.AA17899 Posted: Wed Jul 22 08:12:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 02:28:41 EDT References: <870721110411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 25 >I found out today that while you can make the logical name SYS$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$ANNOUNCE string with embeddeds and s to give >some useful info at login and DEC contradicts itself. Geez. That's why there's such a thing as 'SYS$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.' +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark H. Granoff Member of the Technical Staff | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | USMAIL: The MITRE Corporation | ARPAnet: mhg @ mitre-bedford.ARPA | | Burlington Rd. M/S B015 |-----------------------------------| | Bedford, MA 01730 | A T & T: (617) 271 - 7030 | +--------------------------- Disclaimer ------------------------------+ |The views expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect | | those of my employer. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Unix commands are based on the principle of intuitive complexity. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+