ICL 1900 Series George 3 Operating System Commands

BROADCAST (BC)

Function

Outputs a given text on all or a selection of the MOP consoles from which user jobs are being run.

Format

BROADCAST text,ALL
BROADCAST text,job name,user name
BROADCAST text,job number list

Forbidden contexts

NOT OPERATOR

Execution

The text is output on the appropriate MOP console for each MOP job referred to by the parameters. The format of the output is as follows:

    time BROADCAST: text

A copy of the message is sent to the job's monitoring file (if it exists)in the BROADCAS category.

Error Messages

NO PARAMETERS
USER NAME PARAMETER MISSING
NO MOP JOBS IN THE SYSTEM
ERROR z, USER NAME IS NOT A CORRECTLY FORMED NAME
JOB z IS NOT MOP
NO SUCH JOB NO. AS z
JOB NO. z IS NOT MOP
NO SUCH JOB AS z