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.TH GET_MESSAGE 1 "September 28, 1988" "MIT Project Athena"
.ds ]W MIT Project Athena
.SH NAME
get_message \- display the Athena Global Message of the Day
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B get_message
[
.BI -z[ephyr]
] [
.BI -n[ew]
] [
.BI -l[ogin]
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I get_message
finds the Athena Global Message server, requests the current message,
and displays it if necessary. If any errors occur, a cached copy is
consulted.
.TP 12
.B \-z[ephyr]
indicates that the message (if any) should be displayed as a Zephyr
Windowgram (see
.I zephyr(1)
for details.)
.TP
.B \-n[ew]
indicates that the message should be only be displayed if the user has
not seen it before.
.TP
.B \-l[ogin]
is normally passed to 
.I get_message
by
.I /bin/login
to indicate that the user might not see this message, and that it
should not be considered when the 
.I \-new
argument is later used.
.SH FILES
.TP 12
.B ~/.message_times
to hold the version number of the last message seen by the user.
.TP
.B /var/cache/libgms/messages
to hold the cached copy of the message during network outages.
.SH SEE ALSO
zephyr(1), zwrite(1)
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Mark W. Eichin <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
.SH RESTRICTIONS
Copyright (c) 1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
All Rights Reserved.