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TELL
Sends a message to another session.
Syntax
{[#]Snnn }
{[sessionname,]username.acctname}
TELL {@ }[[;]text]
{@.acctname }
{@S }
Parameters
[#]Snnn The session number as assigned by MPE/iX. This
session number receives the TELL message.
[sessionname] The name of the session or user to receive the
username. acctname 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
username.acctnames to which you may direct a TELL
message. Sessions with an active SETMSG OFF
command are listed as being in QUIET mode and do
not receive your TELL message. This is also true
for a session on the system console. If several
users are running under the same session identity,
MPE/iX sends the message to all of them.
@ All sessions.
@.acctname 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/iX still prints the FROM message as follows:
FROM/sessionid
Operation Notes
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
the 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).
Use
This command may be issued from a session, job, program, or in BREAK.
Pressing Break has no effect on this command.
Examples
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
Related Information
Commands TELLOP, WARN
Manuals Performing System Operation Tasks (32650-90137)