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Re: MOTD. (Message of the day)


 

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Dave,

Our old Honeywell System had a FORTRAN (or could have been ¡°B¡± but I think it was pre B) program that did this. I wonder where I put the message file. I used to have a copy somewhere¡­

¡­ it had some gems¡­ any UK readers may (or may not) agree with¡­.? .. e.g.

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¡°A pleasant view of Swindon , as seen through your rearview mirror¡±

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Or that great line from Betjeman,

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¡°come friendly bomb and fall on Slough¡±

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Dave

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave Trainor
Sent: 26 June 2020 20:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H390-MVS] MOTD. (Message of the day)

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Yes I agree, as rexx would not have been around circa 1978 at the university.??? The ¡°fortune cookie¡± thing that Volker has is more or less exactly what I am asking about.? I built my system from scratch (if you can it that) following Jay Mosley¡¯s excellent instructions and learned quite a bit in doing so rather than booting a pre made system.? But am a novice without a doubt.

So a CLIST sounds like the ticket, is the ¡°fortune cookie¡± code available? Or something similar?? Most of the time in the Unix world I lived in so many years, I found scripts that sorta did what I wanted and then modified them rather that start with a clean sheet of coding paper.? Teaches a lot about others logic doing that too.

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Thanks,

Dave

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From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Joe Monk <joemonk64@...>
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, June 26, 2020 at 7:34 AM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H390-MVS] MOTD. (Message of the day)

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This wouldve?been a CLIST executed as part of your logon PROC.

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Joe

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:00 AM Dave Trainor <dave@...> wrote:

Is anyone aware of a utility for a MOTD (Message of the day) utility for MVS??? I seem to remember back 40yr ago we always got a humorous message as I am guessing a broadcast message when we logged on, sometimes it was informative like ¡®the system will be unavailable from 18:00 to 20:00¡¯ or other times it just was funny.

Was this just the operators manually creating a MOTD (obviously the maint schedule would be), or is there a utility to generate a automatic message??? I could not find anything in searching CBT or Google, other than ones for old Unix versions or Windows.?

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Thanks,
Dave


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