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From: helen@uhccux.UUCP (Helen Rapozo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE/WELCOME length
Message-ID: <1603@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 08:23:53 GMT
References: <8802231609.AA21202@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: helen@uhccux.UUCP (Helen Rapozo)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
Lines: 20
Summary: It can point to files

In article <8802231609.AA21202@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RAND@merrimack.EDU ("Rand P. Hall") writes:
>Can anyone provide a rational for SYS$ANNOUNCE and SYS$WELCOME's limit
>of 63 characters? 
>
>Rand P. Hall                         rand@merrimack.edu (csnet)
>Director, Academic Computing         617.683.7111
>Merrimack College
>315 Turnpike Rd.                     "There is elegance in simplicity."
>North Andover, Mass. 01845                      - Kimball S. Maddocks

No idea as to why the 63 character limit, but it is a logical and
you can point it to a file by putting a '@' before the text.  For
example:

	DEFINE/SYSTEM SYS$ANNOUNCE @SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT



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