Supervising the Network

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Customizing the User Environment

Using WRITE

Text you want to display must be enclosed in quotation marks (“ ”).

There are several ways to display variables in the text message. The way you

enter the variable in the WRITE command determines the display format, as

follows:

• If you type the identifier variable exactly as shown, with no special punctuation,

only the variable is displayed on the screen. (See “Login Script Identifier

Variables” in Table 5-6.)

• If you enclose the identifier variable inside quotation marks, then precede the

variable by typing a percent sign (%) and type the text in uppercase letters, both

the variable and the text are displayed on the screen.

This method is often used to combine regular text with an identiﬁer variable

because both the text and the variable can be enclosed in the same quotation

marks.

To join several text strings and identiﬁer variables into a single display

without enclosing the variables in quotation marks, use a semicolon between

the text and the variables.

If you have several WRITE commands, each one appears on a separate line

on your workstation. However, if you put a semicolon at the end of all but

the last WRITE command, the commands appear as one continuous

sentence or paragraph (although they may wrap onto additional lines on the

workstation’s screen).

Text strings can include the special characters in Table 5-4:

Table 5-4 Text String Characters

Character Meaning

\r Makes a carriage return occur

\n Starts a new line of the text

\” Displays a quotation mark on the screen

\7 Makes a beep sound