Re: Is it possible to have 2 display devices in one program?

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:32 AM 10/20/03, you wrote:
> "Care to share?"  Sure, why not, but no laughing, ok?  I would like to
> develop a TALK utility.   Reaching another user for a casual question is not
> graceful.  Obviously the phone or Instant Messenger will always be a better
> method, but sometimes you just need to ask a quick question and SNDBRKMSG is
> not very graceful.

Ahh, what you need then is a break message handling program, not the funky 
program that reads/writes screens to more than one machine.  If specified, 
this program runs whenever a message comes in.  You can decide how to 
format it, what to do with it and so on.  What is real nice is that you can 
prompt a response from the user, and TALK it back to the sender.

CHGMSGQ MSGQ(FOO)
        PGM(MYLIB/MYPGM)

Take a look at the help on the PGM prompt and it will tell you what parms 
get passed in.

It's been a long while, but my old one prefaced each message with a 
constant, like 'TALK', and then handled those, but just did a DSPMSG on any 
others.