WRITE

The WRITE command lets you issue messages to various destinations. It has more flexibility than the standard REXX SAY statement.

This command has the following format:

WRITE 
   [LOG={NO|YES}]
   [TERM={NO|YES}]
   [MON={NO|YES}]
   [{COLOR|COLOUR}=color]
   [{HLIGHT|HLITE}=hlight] 
   [ALARM={NO|YES}]
   [INTENS={LOW|HIGH}]
   DATA="wtext"

• LOG={NO | YES}

  Specifies whether to write the message to the activity log.

  Default: NO

• TERM={NO | YES}

  Specifies whether to write the message to the owning environment.

  Default: YES

• MON={NO | YES}

  Specifies whether to write the message to all OCS users and dependent environments profiled to receive Monitor class messages.

  Default: YES

• COLOR|COLOUR={BLUE|GREEN|PINK|RED|TURQUOISE|WHITE|YELLOW|NONE}

  Specifies the color of the message.

• HLIGHT|HLITE={BLINK|REVERSE|USCORE|NONE}

  Specifies the extended highlighting of the message.

• ALARM={NO | YES}

  Specifies whether to ring the terminal alarm when displayed on an OCS window.

  Default: NO

• INTENS={NORMAL | HIGH}

  Specifies whether to display the message in high or normal intensity.

  Default: NORMAL

• DATA="wtext"

  Specifies the text to display on the terminal.

Example: WRITE

ADDRESS 'NM'
'WRITE LOG=YES DATA="a message from REXX to the log"'
'WRITE LOG=YES TERM=YES COLOR=RED DATA="Hello World from NM rexx!"'
'WRITE LOG=NO TERM=YES COLOR=GREEN HLITE=REVERSE INTENS=HIGH',
'DATA="This should be green, intensive and reverse!"'
attr=' COLOR=PINK HLITE=REVERSE'
line=" DATA='This should be pink, intensive and reverse!'"
'WRITE LOG=NO TERM=YES'attr||line
allarg=' COLOR=GREEN DATA="This should be just green"'
WRITE allarg