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Enables you to selectively screen out various kinds of messages from being broadcast to your terminal.

Format

SET BROADCAST =(class-name[,...])

Parameter

class-name[,...]

Specifies the class of message that you want to enable or disable for broadcast to your terminal. If you specify only one class, you can omit the parentheses. The class names are as follows:

ALL	Enables all message classes.
[NO]DCL	Specifies Ctrl/T and SPAWN/NOTIFY messages.
[NO]GENERAL	Specifies all normal REPLY messages or messages from $BRDCST.
[NO]MAIL	Specifies notification of mail.
NONE	Disables all message classes.
[NO]OPCOM	Specifies messages issued by the operator communication process (OPCOM).
[NO]PHONE	Specifies messages from the Phone utility.
[NO]QUEUE	Specifies messages referring to print or batch jobs issued by the queue manager.
[NO]SHUTDOWN	Specifies messages issued from the REPLY/SHUTDOWN command.
[NO]URGENT	Specifies messages issued from the REPLY/URGENT command.
[NO]USER1 to [NO]USER16	Specifies messages from specific user groups. (For information on setting up user-written broadcast messages, see the description of the $BRKTHRU system service in the HP OpenVMS System Services Reference Manual.)

Description

The SET BROADCAST command enables you to receive certain kinds of messages at your terminal, but not others. By default, you receive all messages at your terminal (SET BROADCAST=ALL). SET BROADCAST=NONE screens out all messages.

After you have used the SET BROADCAST command to screen out some classes of messages (for example, SET BROADCAST=NOPHONE), you can use the command to restore that class (SET BROADCAST=PHONE).

Use the SHOW BROADCAST command to see which message classes are currently being screened out.

Note SYS$COMMAND must be a terminal.

Examples

$ SET BROADCAST=(NOMAIL, NOPHONE)
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$ SET BROADCAST=MAIL
      

In this example, the first SET BROADCAST command screens out all mail and phone messages. Later the second SET BROADCAST command restores mail messages. Phone messages are still screened.

$ SET BROADCAST=NONE
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$ SET BROADCAST=(SHUTDOWN, URGENT, DCL, OPCOM)
      

In this example, the first SET BROADCAST command screens out all messages. Later the second SET BROADCAST command restores shutdown, urgent, DCL, and OPCOM messages. General, phone, mail, queue, and user messages are still screened.