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Sends a message to another session. (CM)
{[#]Snnn } {[sessionname,]username.acctname} TELL {@ }[[;]text] {@.acctname } {@S }
[ #]Snnn The session number as assigned by MPE/iX. This session number will receive the TELL message. [sessionname] username.accountname The name of the session or user to receive the message, and the account name to which the message is directed. This parameter is the same as the session identity entered with the HELLO command. Issuing a SHOWJOB command lists all the user.accountnames to which you may direct a TELL message. Users who have issued a SETMSG OFF command will be listed as being in QUIET mode and will not receive your TELL message. If several users are running under the same session identity, MPE/iX will send the message to all of them. @ All sessions. @.acctnam e All sessions under the account name established by the system manager. @S All sessions. This is the same as the @ parameter. text Message text, preceded by a space or a semicolon (;) and consisting of any string of ASCII characters. The default is that no text is printed; however, MPE XL still prints the FROM message as follows FROM/sessionid
This command transmits a message from the sender's job or session to one or more sessions currently running. The message appears on the receiving session list device. Messages sent with this command may include escape and control characters that invoke bells or inverse video. If a message is sent to a terminal that is currently interacting with a program, MPE/iX queues the message as high as possible among the current input/output requests but does not interrupt any read or write in progress. If the session or user designated to receive the message is not running, or if the job is spooled, the transmitting job/session receives a system message indicating this. MPE/iX blocks the TELL command if the receiving device is operating in the QUIET mode (refer to SETMSG command) and informs the sender with Snnn username.acctname NOT ACCEPTING MESSAGES You cannot send TELL messages to a job or to yourself. If you try to send a message to a job, the following warning is issued TARGET MUST BE INTERACTIVE, NO MESSAGE SENT. (CIWARN 1627). This command may be issued from a session, job, in BREAK, or from a program. Pressing [Break] has no effect on this command.
To send a message to a user identified as BROWN logged on under account A running a session named BROWNSES telling him to use a particular file, enter TELL BROWNSES,BROWN.A USE FILEX To send a message asking all users logged on in account A to log off, enter TELL @.A PLEASE LOG OFF
Commands: TELLOP, WARN Manuals : Performing System Operation Tasks (32650-90137) Back to Main Index