Re: Additional Message Information

On 04/06/99 05:46:46 AM "Brendan Bispham"  wrote:

>Anyone know how to get the additional message information without going
>through DSPMSG?
>
>If I have the message key - can I display this screen directly from a
>program?
>
>Failing that, I have had a look at doing a RCVMSG or RTVMSG and replacing
>the &N codes with LineFeeds but I assume I'll need a USRDFN DDS - which
>seems over complicated.

Brendan,
  As far as I know, the "additional message" display is an optional one; if 
the user is experienced, they can glance at the short first level text, if 
they need more help, they can go for the "additional message."  My first 
instinct was to set up a new message file and move the second level text 
into the first level field, but the maximum length is 132 columns. Building 
a routine to do the RCVMSG, then an RTVMSG and then performing all the 
variable substitution could get ugly.  Why do you need to always display 
the second level text of a message?

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Inc, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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