Creating a Dialog Script

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Creating a Dialog Script

You can use one or more of the commands shown in the following table in a dialog script.

Command	Description
BREAK	Sends the halt sequence or a break signal to the console.
HALT	Sends the halt sequence or a break signal to the console.
RATE	Sets the period of time in seconds between which the dialog should pause before executing the next SEND command.
SEND	Sends a specified string to the console.
SPEED	Sets the time, in milliseconds, that the dialog is to pause before sending the next character.
UNLOCK	Disconnects a user currently connected to the system the dialog procedure is running on.
WAIT	Stalls for a timeout number of seconds, or until the quoted string occurs on the console line. If a WAIT times out without the string being seen, the dialog procedure exits.

The following qualifiers let DIALOG work correctly on some systems. By default, the string transmitted by a SEND command is terminated by a carriage Enter/new line pair.

/NORETURN: Specifies that the string transmitted by a SEND command should not be terminated by a carriage Enter (CR).
/NONEWLINE: Specifies that the string transmitted by a SEND command should not be terminated by a new line (LF) character.

See the appendix Sample DIALOG File for an example of dialog procedure.