Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!labrea!aurora!ames!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!helen From: helen@uhccux.UUCP (Helen Rapozo) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug Or Feature Message-ID: <703@uhccux.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 01:07:18 EDT Article-I.D.: uhccux.703 Posted: Fri Jul 24 01:07:18 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:55:52 EDT References: <870721110411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu> Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 11 Summary: You can point to a filename In article <870721110411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu>, zar@XHMEIA.Caltech.EDU (Daniel M. Zirin) writes: > I found out today that while you can make the logical name SYS$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$ANNOUNCE string with embeddeds and s to give > some useful info at login and DEC contradicts itself. Geez. I know that there is a way to have SYS$ANNOUNCE to point to a filename and that will allow you to have a much bigger announcement before the USERNAME prompt