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Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE Logical Name Bug or Feature
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Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 23:40:00 EDT
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>                                                            I'm generating
>a rather long SYS$ANNOUNCE string with embedded s and s to give
>some useful info at login and DEC contradicts itself. Geez.

You can also make SYS$ANNOUNCE point to a file to be typed to the terminal
by defining SYS$ANNOUNCE as "@filespec". This is a big win for us, since we
have four or five lines of "Welcome to so-n-so, the operator is awake, etc"
plus an indetermine number of flashworthy news items, that are added and
deleted "frequently"(several times/week). I hope this is accurate, somebody
updated my doc set by throwing out all the old pages and putting just the
updated pages in the binders. 
                                            Bruce

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