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17.TH GET_MESSAGE 1 "September 28, 1988" "MIT Project Athena"
18.ds ]W MIT Project Athena
19.SH NAME
20get_message \- display the Athena Global Message of the Day
21.SH SYNOPSIS
22.B get_message
23[
24.BI -z[ephyr]
25] [
26.BI -n[ew]
27] [
28.BI -l[ogin]
29]
30.SH DESCRIPTION
31.I get_message
32finds the Athena Global Message server, requests the current message,
33and displays it if necessary. If any errors occur, a cached copy is
34consulted.
35.TP 12
36.B \-z[ephyr]
37indicates that the message (if any) should be displayed as a Zephyr
38Windowgram (see
39.I zephyr(1)
40for details.)
41.TP
42.B \-n[ew]
43indicates that the message should be only be displayed if the user has
44not seen it before.
45.TP
46.B \-l[ogin]
47is normally passed to
48.I get_message
49by
50.I /bin/login
51to indicate that the user might not see this message, and that it
52should not be considered when the
53.I \-new
54argument is later used.
55.SH FILES
56.TP 12
57.B ~/.message_times
58to hold the version number of the last message seen by the user.
59.TP
60.B /var/cache/libgms/messages
61to hold the cached copy of the message during network outages.
62.SH SEE ALSO
63zephyr(1), zwrite(1)
64.SH AUTHOR
65.PP
66Mark W. Eichin <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
67.SH RESTRICTIONS
68Copyright (c) 1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
69All Rights Reserved.
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