TELL

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TELL

     Sends a message to another session.

SYNTAX

          {[#]Snnn                        }
          {[sessionname,]username.acctname}
     TELL {@                              }[[;]text]
          {@.acctname                     }
          {@S                             }

PARAMETERS

[ #]Snnn              The session number as assigned by MPE/iX.  This
                      session number will receive the TELL message.

[sessionname]
username.accountname  The name of the session or user to receive the
                      message, and the account name to which the
                      message is directed.  This parameter is the same
                      as the session identity entered with the HELLO
                      command.  Issuing a SHOWJOB command lists all the
                      user.accountnames to which you may direct a TELL
                      message.  Users who have issued a SETMSG OFF
                      command will be listed as being in QUIET mode
                      and will not receive your TELL message.  If
                      several users are running under the same session
                      identity, MPE/iX will send the message to all of
                      them.

@                     All sessions.

@.acctnam  e          All sessions under the account name established
                      by the system manager.

@S                    All sessions.  This is the same as the @
                      parameter.

text                  Message text, preceded by a space or a semicolon
                      (;) and consisting of any string of ASCII
                      characters.  The default is that no text is
                      printed; however, MPE XL still prints the FROM
                      message as follows

                      FROM/sessionid

OPERATION

     This command transmits a message from the sender's job or
     session to one or more sessions currently running.  The
     message appears on the receiving session list device.
     Messages sent with this command may include escape and
     control characters that invoke bells or inverse video.  If a
     message is sent to a terminal that is currently interacting
     with a program, MPE/iX queues the message as high as
     possible among the current input/output requests but does
     not interrupt any read or write in progress.  If the session
     or user designated to receive the message is not running, or
     if the job is spooled, the transmitting job/session receives
     a system message indicating this.  MPE/iX blocks the TELL
     command if the receiving device is operating in the QUIET
     mode (refer to SETMSG command) and informs the sender with

     Snnn username.acctname NOT ACCEPTING MESSAGES

     You cannot send TELL messages to a job or to yourself.  If
     you try to send a message to a job, the following warning is
     issued

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

     This command may be issued from a session, job, in BREAK, or
     from a program.  Pressing [Break] has no effect on this
     command.

EXAMPLE(S)

     To send a message to a user identified as BROWN logged on
     under account A running a session named BROWNSES telling him
     to use a particular file, enter

     TELL BROWNSES,BROWN.A USE FILEX

     To send a message asking all users logged on in account A to
     log off, enter

     TELL @.A PLEASE LOG OFF

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Commands:   TELLOP, WARN

Manuals :   Performing System Operation Tasks (32650-90137)

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