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TELL
The TELL command enables you to send a message from your job or session
to one or more currently running sessions. The message appears on the
list device of the receiving session, which is usually a terminal.
Syntax
{[#]Snnn }
TELL {[sessionname,]username.acctname} [[;]text]
{@ }
{@.acctname }
Parameters
Snnn Specifies the session number to receive the
message.
[sessionname,] Specifies the name of the session or user to
username. acctname 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.
@ Specifies all sessions.
@.acctname Specifies all user names logged on to the account
name.
text Specifies message text, preceded by a space or a
semicolon (;), that consists of a string of any
ASCII characters. If you do not provide message
text, the system still prints a FROM message on the
target terminal as shown:
FROM/sessionid
Operation Notes
* Usage
You can enter this command from a session, a job, a program, or in
break mode.
* Quiet mode
Users who enter the SETMSG OFF command are in quiet mode and
cannot receive your messages. This also applies to a session
running in quiet mode on the console. If you send a message to a
session in quiet mode, the system blocks the TELL command and
displays the following message:
Snnn username.acctname NOT ACCEPTING MESSAGES
* Multiple users
If several users are running under the same session identity, the
system sends the message to all of them.
* Additional acceptable message media
Messages that you send with this command can include escape and
control characters that invoke bells or inverse video.
* Restrictions
You cannot send a message to a job or to yourself. If you attempt
to send a message to a job, the following warning appears:
TARGET MUST BE INTERACTIVE, NO MESSAGE SENT.
(CIWARN 1627).
If you send a message to a terminal currently interacting with a
program, the system queues the message as high as possible among
the current input/output requests, but does not interrupt any read
or write in progress.
Examples
* To send an instructional message to user FRED, logged on in
account PAYROLL, running a session named FINANCES, enter:
:TELL FINANCES,FRED.PAYROLL USE FILES FROM YESTERDAY'S BACKUPS
* To send a message asking all users logged on in account PAYROLL to
log off, enter:
:TELL @.PAYROLL PLEASE LOG OFF
Related Commands
SETMSG
TELLOP
WARN