TELL

Quiet mode

Users who enter the SETMSG OFF command are in quiet mode and cannot receive your messages. This also applies to a session running in quiet mode on the console. If y ou send a message to a session in quiet mode, the system blocks the TELL command and displa ys the following message:

Snnn username.acctname NOT ACCEPTING MESSAGES

Multiple users

If several users are running under the same session iden tity, the system sends the message to all of them.

Additional acceptable message media

Messages that y ou send with this command can include escape and con trol characters that in voke bells or inverse video.

Restrictions

You cannot send a message to a job or to y ourself. If you attempt to send a message to a job, the follo wing warning appears:

TARGET MUST BE INTERACTIVE, NO MESSAGE SENT. (CIWARN 1627).

If you send a message to a terminal curren tly interacting with a program, the system queues the message as high as possible among the curren t input/output requests, but does not in terrupt any read or write in progress.

Examples

To send an instructional message to user FRED, logged on in account PAYROLL , running a session named FINANCES , enter:

:TELL FINANCES,FRED.PAYROLL USE FILES FROM YESTERDAY'S BACKUPS

To send a message asking all users logged on in accoun t PAYROLL to log o￿, enter:

:TELL @.PAYROLL PLEASE LOG OFF

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