DECUS Heritage

Version: 1,0, November 1988
Submitted By: Digital Equipment Corporation
Operating System: VAX/VMS V4.3
Source Language: DCL, VAX BASIC
Keywords: Mail, System Management - VMS, Utilities - VMS

---

Abstract: The System Notice Utility V1.0, is a tool that will allow system messages to be posted from a central node to the local node, several nodes, or to as many nodes as you wish.

It is designed to provide users with the latest information on system and facility events. Messages are classified into two categories; informational and system. Informational messages will generally be related to corporate and facility announcements, whereas system messages will be related to information that affects a specific system environment (preventive maintenance, system shutdowns, etc...). When messages are created, the number of days that a message should be posted will also be entered. This provides for the automatic removal of the message from the active system messages to an "archived" message file. Users also have some control over the way news is presented to them at login time.

The commands, along with other features of the NEWS Utility, are explained in detail in the help file NEWS.HLP and some suggestions for setting up this system is included in the file INSTRUCTIONS.TXT as this product does not use VMSINSTAL.

Click on FTP to download from the FTP Achives.

---

Last Update: Thu Jan 11 18:36:09 1996