Re: [nv-l] Dialogs (ovxecho/xecho) and a nicely formatted message

[Oliver Bruchhaeuser <oliver.bruchhaeuser@de.ibm.com>]

Another "trick" is to make use of the fold command.
It controls the number of characters to display per line .... in this case 30:
/usr/OV/bin/ovxbeep "`echo A CRITICAL EVENT HAS OCCURRED PLEASE CHECK THE EVENT CARDS! | fold -s -w 30`"

Oliver

Brett Coley <bcoley@us.ibm.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 30.03.2004 22:17 Please respond to nv-l

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xecho and ovxecho will honor newlines in their input data. From
the command line, this works ok for me, something similar should
work programatically as well.

/usr/OV/bin/ovxecho ' Danger 
Will
Robinson
-----------------------------------------
Something bad happened!
----------------------------------------- 
--- Bongo'

Regards,
Brett
bcoley@us.ibm.com
Tivoli Software/IBM




Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:02 PM
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From: "Jon Austin" <JAustin@cms.hhs.gov>
Subject: [nv-l] Dialogs (ovxecho/xecho) and a nicely formatted message



Working on automating a process around a NetView Server.

Process is going to require operating action/intervention, so I'm
looking to use xecho or ovxecho. My experience so far has indicated
that the message, iregardless of how it is formulated will display as
a
single line of text.

Anyone have any pointers on being able to format text in these tools?

Anyone have any substitutes they'd like to suggest otherwise???


Jon Austin