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From: dave@wsccs.UUCP (VAX Headroom @ The End of the Galaxy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Menu system for VAX/VMS ?
Message-ID: <160@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 22:35:01 GMT
References: <625@alette.UUCP> <355@skatter.UUCP>
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Summary: auto-login and sys$announce

> In article <625@alette.UUCP>, trier@alette.UUCP (Jens Trier Rasmussen) writes:
> > I'm looking for a menu system for the VAX/VMS. The system should be able to
> > be the first the user sees of the VMS, no username password prompt, but a
> > homemade welcome screen.

Well, you can have something appear before the username password prompt 
by defining sys$announce to be either a string of text or @filename
(ex. @sys$manager:prewelcome.txt)
and it will display this before giving the prompts.  To get rid of the
prompts
altogether, you can define the terminal to be an auto-login terminal with
sys$manager:alfmaint.com (i think thats the name).  This utility
lets you define the username that this terminal will automatically use.
If there is no password on the username, then the terminal will enter the
account automatically.  You can make it captive and create a menu system
with DCL or do whatever you want in the login.com.

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