request

Introduction

request is a program to request the user to do or confirm something. The most typical example is the request a insert a certain disk.

The actual message can be given as parameter. Apart from that, the window will contain an OK which has to be indicated by the user for the program to terminate.

Usage

request {line}
line
The given line will be displayed in the request window. Several lines can be given. If the line contains spaces, then it has to be enclosed in double quotes ('"'), and the double quotes themselves have to be doubled.

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last edited January 26, 1996