SUMMARY

Sends a message to the user's terminal.

SYNTAX

MESSAGE text

INPUT

text:	Text of message to be sent. If there are blanks in the message it must be enclosed within single quotes.

DESCRIPTION

This command is useful within macro files to send status or informational messages to the user while the macro file is executing. It is not particularly useful in the interactive mode (unless you like to talk to yourself.)

EXAMPLES

To send a message without any blanks:

SAC> MESSAGE FINISHED
  FINISHED

To send a message with blanks, you must use single or double quotes:

SAC> MESSAGE 'Job has finished.'
  Job has finished.

LATEST REVISION

January 8, 1983 (Version 8.0)