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From: zar@XHMEIA.Caltech.EDU (Daniel M. Zirin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug Or Feature
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Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 14:04:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 21 14:04:11 1987
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I found out today that while you can make the logical name SYS$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.

						From The Great
						     Zar