
1 TELL

  TELL user ["Message"]

  TELL sends one-line messages to other users on the same node and on 
  other nodes in a VAX Cluster, or a remote DECnet node. It can also be 
  used in a multiline mode. It has some similarity to the program TO from
  Cern, but provides the additional capability of clusterwide and DECnet 
  operation.

2 Parameters      

3 user 
       Username to which the message shall be sent. The name nay contain
       a node specification. Valid usernames are TOM or DIDDEL::DADDEL

3 message
       Message to be sent. If you specify it on the commandline, enclose
       it with double quotes. If not, TELL will prompt for it.
            

2  Qualifiers      

3  /HELP       
   Display a short information about TELL

3  /VERSION    
   Display version number

3  /MULTILINE  
   Enter multiline mode 
   TELL will prompt for additional message lines until you type Ctrl-Z 

2 Messages      

TELL returns messages in the usual format "%TELL-S-NAME, Message".

  %TELL-I-CONNECT     : TELL tries to connect to a remote node

  %TELL-I-MESSAGE     : TELL tells you that you are receiving a message, 
                        and the source of the message  

  %TELL-F-NOCONNECT   : TELL failed to connect to a remote node
  
  %TELL-E-NOTALLOWED  : TELL connected to a remote node, but the remote 
                        node refused to receive the message

  %TELL-S-NOTIFIED    : The message was successfully transmitted

  %TELL-W-NOSUCHUSER  : The remote user may not have got the message:
                        Reasons: - not logged in
                                 - he received the message, but on another
                                   node in cluster 
                                 - terminal /NOBROADCAST

  %TELL-E-NOUSER      : You specified no username to get the message

  %TELL-F-UNRECMODE   : TELL can't recognize the process mode, this error 
                        is very unlikely.

  %SYSTEM-F-NOOPER    : Tell is not installed correctly with OPER and WORLD
                        privileges on the local node.

  %SYSTEM-F-LINKABORT : During a DECnet connection, the remote partner 
                        exited. Maybe TELL is not correctly installed on 
                        the remote node

  %SYSTEM-F-NOSUCHOBJ : TELL is not installed on the remote node.

  %SYSTEM-F-NOSUCHNODE: The remote node does not exist

2  Restrictions        

  TELL has no possibility to check if a user was notified on an other
  node in a cluster. If you want to be sure to notify a user in your 
  local cluster, you should:
  - Test by SHOW USER /CLUSTER if he is logged in (VMS >= V5.3)
    (With VMS On a remote cluster, you may use PHONE DIR)
  - If he is only logged in on an other node, log into this node and use
    TELL or use TELL via DECnet to the node where he is.
    

2 Examples         

  TELL dickmann  "Mittagessen !"
  
  TELL remote::meier "Please call 9876"

  TELL jones /m
  

