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From: seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu (George Seibel%Kollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SYS$ANNOUNCE/WELCOME length
Message-ID: <10721@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 88 08:57:50 GMT
References: <8802231609.AA21202@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <8802231609.AA21202@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RAND@merrimack.EDU ("Rand P. Hall") writes:
>Can anyone provide a rational for SYS$ANNOUNCE and SYS$WELCOME's limit
>of 63 characters? 

I for one sure hate to sit around watching 1000 bytes of somebody's
dumb welcome message scroll by at 1200 baud...  maybe someone's trying
to tell us something.

George Seibel
UCSF