HELP REQUEST — VMS 5.0
Displays a message at a system operator's terminal, and optionally
requests a reply. All messages are logged at the operator's console
and in the operator's log file, if that file is initialized.
Format:
REQUEST "message-text"
Additional information available:
Parameters
"message-text"
The text of the message to be displayed.
The string can be up to 128 characters. If the string contains
spaces, special characters, or lowercase characters, enclose it in
quotation marks ("").
Command Qualifiers
Additional information available:
/REPLY
/REPLY Requests a reply to the specified message, and issues a unique identification number to which the operator sends the response.
/TO
/TO=(operator[,...])
Specifies one or more operators to whom you wish to send the message.
By default, the message is sent to all terminals currently
designated as operator terminals. However, you can specify one or
more of the keywords to limit the number of operators receiving the
message. If you specify only one keyword, you can omit the
parentheses.
CARDS Sends the message to operators designated
to respond to card reader requests.
CENTRAL Sends the message to the central system
operator.
CLUSTER Sends the message to operators designated
to respond to cluster-related requests.
DEVICES Sends the message to operators designated
to mount and dismount disk and tape
volumes.
DISKS Sends the message to operators designated
to mount and dismount disk volumes.
NETWORK Sends the message to the network operator.
OPER1 through OPER12 Sends the message to installation-specified
operators identified as OPER1, OPER2, and
so on.
PRINTER Sends the message to operators designated
to respond to printer requests.
SECURITY Sends the message to operators designated
to respond to security-related requests.
TAPES Sends the message to operators designated
to mount and dismount tape volumes.