psw@WOLFGANG.MITRE.ORG (Phil Wherry) (07/22/87)
In message <870721119411.016@XHMEIA.Caltech.Edu>, Daniel Zirin (zar@xhmeia.caltech.edu) comments that the sys$announce logical will only support a string of up to 128 characters. True, but he can achieve the effect he's looking for (long system announcement messages) by putting "@filename" in the logical. For instance, the command: DEF/SYS SYS$ANNOUNCE "@SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.LIS" would display the file ANNOUNCE.LIS in SYS$MANAGER before the Username: prompt at login time. Phil Wherry psw%wolfgang@gateway.mitre.org