will accept the entry, and the following prompt appears:

Enter up to 45 characters, including spaces and punctuation. Special rules apply when entering the

ENTER MESSAGE (45 CHARACTERS

MAX, ^X TO ABORT):

characters shown in Table 11-4into the broadcast message. After the message is finished, press <cr>.

If you enter a message that is too long, you will get the following error message:

** ILLEGAL INPUT **

Once the message has been broadcast, the Command Facility Main Menu appears.

DIALOG MESSAGES

Dialog messages are configurable messages and prompts displayed to users when operating in the Multiserver network. Each dialog message has a default message. These can be changed by accessing the Dialog Messages Menu.

Each dialog message is discussed in Table 11-5. Note the following regarding the dialog messages:

COMMAND FACILITY MAIN MENU [node id]

3 CONFIGURE LOCAL NODES

CONFIGURE LOCAL NODES [node id]

10 DIALOG MESSAGES

CHAPTER 11: Administration

Table 11-4. Special Message Characters

Desired

 

What

 

Character

 

to

 

in Message

 

Input

Notes

^X

 

<esc>^x

Without the <esc> key,

 

 

 

^X will abort the

 

 

 

process

<esc>

<esc><esc>

To include an escape in

(escape)

 

 

the text, it must be

 

 

 

preceded by an <esc>.

;

 

<esc>;

To include a semicolon

 

 

 

in the text, it must be

 

 

 

preceded by an

 

 

 

<esc>.

carriage return,

;

The semicolon inserts a

line feed

 

 

carriage return and line

 

 

 

feed. This counts as

 

 

 

two characters.

DIALOG MESSAGES

1.CHANNEL PASSWORD

2.WELCOME

3.CLASS REQUEST

4.CLASS PASSWORD

5.CONNECTED

6.QUEUE

7.BUSY

8.DISCONNECTED

9.NO ANSWER

10.UNAVAILABLE

11.UNASSIGNED

12.INCOMPATIBLE

13.CALL IN PROGRESS

CR - ACCEPT ENTRY

M- MAIN MENU

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