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From: lori@hacgate.scg.hac.com (Lori + 7/9)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How to make the DM display a node name
Message-ID: <7487@hacgate.scg.hac.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 22:02:06 GMT
References: <6900@ubc-cs.UUCP> <2550@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <6923@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: lori@hacgate.hac.com
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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In article <6923@ubc-cs.UUCP> pphillip@cs.ubc.ca (Peter Phillips) writes:
>                           Is there any way to convince the display manager
>to leave any sort of message on the screen between logins?  Or even change
>what the "login:" prompt says?

I'm assuming that something about ENV NODEID isn't what you are looking
for here, so a few more thoughts:

Look at the MSG command and see if it does what you want.  You can read
environment variables from the DM with ENV, grab the string in a buffer,
(not lost even after logout), and dump it out in the DM output window with
MSG.

Remember if you call it with XDMC from a shell script, you have to enclose
the whole command string in double quotes (under Aegis, anyway).

Or maybe you could fiddle with the '&' command.  Or even CV or CRPAD a file
up in a corner at logout.

Please let us know what you get to work.


...lori