| Title: | "ASK THE WIZARDS" |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 12 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1857 |
| Total number of notes: | 3728 |
Return-Path: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com Received: by vmsmkt.zko.dec.com (UCX V4.1-12, OpenVMS V6.2 VAX); Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:51:53 -0400 Received: from vms001 by mail13.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id LAA06183; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 10:49:29 -0400 Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com (08-Apr-1997 1049) To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Ask the Wizard: '[email protected]' X-VMS-To: [email protected] Remote Host: (null) Browser Type: Mozilla/4.0b2 (WinNT; I) Remote Info: <null> Name: Michael Email Address: [email protected] CPU Architecture: Alpha Version: v 6.2 Questions: I am looking for examples of dcl scripts which produce a graphical text output at the system login when a user logs in or before that. Eg Flashing letters, Large Letters, Different colours Regards
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| 1765.1 | Avoid These During Login; Not All Devices Accept | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Mon Apr 28 1997 15:50 | 18 |
These displays imbed escape sequences -- sequences of characters introduced by an <ESC> or <CSI> -- that are interpreted by the output terminal device. I would tend to avoid these during logins, as these can cause some severe confusion when the output terminal device is not expecting these sequences, or when a particular output terminal device does not accept these escape sequences. And if not correctly configured, LAT displays can also pick up these sequences. For information on escape sequences, see most any terminal manual, or see the DECterm manual in the DECwindows documentation. For the mechanism used to set up login and welcome messages, see the SYS$ANNOUNCE and the SYS$WELCOME logical names in the system management documentation. | |||||