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1 TELL
The TELL command lets you execute a single command on a remote node
and see the result (output) of that command. For example, this
command might be used to examine the queues of a remote node. In
order to use the TELL command under VMS, define the foreign command
$ TELL:==$MAPUTIL:TELL.EXE
The syntax is:
$ TELL nodename["username password"]:: command string
If no access control information is given, proxy access will be
attempted if the remote node is a VAX. The length of the nodename,
access control, and command string is currently limited to 136
characters.
2 IMPLEMENTATION
The TELL command is implemented as a command and a command server on
the remote node. The server is identified by DECnet object number
198. On VAX, the server is implemented as a command file. The
command is implemented as an image, but an alternative implementation
of the command as a command file is MAPPROCS:TELL.COM. TELL.COM
increases the length of the command string input, but the command line
must contain less than 8 parameter seperators, and the username
password must not be typed since the parsing assumes P1 is the node
name.
Implementation of the command and the server is obviously
machine-dependent. A TELL command and TELL server exist for the
DEC10, and a TELL command exists for RSX systems.
2 SOURCE_LOCATION
[MAPVAX.PROGRAM.TELL]