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Use ImmediateMail to send a specified line (sometimes called the immediate line) as a message to another USER.

 

ImmediateMail may also be entered as MailI[mmediate].

 

Required Operands

 

USER the user to send the message to.  (The UserLibrary command will produce a listing of all users.)

 

TEXT is the message text to send to the USER.  TEXT can be up to 253 characters in length.

 

The message title displayed by MailLibrary is set to the first 40 characters of TEXT.  ImmediateMail command is used for sending a short message without the inconvenience of creating and editing a file.  After the message has been sent, it behaves exactly as if a single-line file had been sent using FileMail.  See the FileMail command for more discussion of mail features.

 

Return Codes

 

OK Successful.

 

Examples

 

Send a single-line message:

 

   => maili mb,'Thanks.  See you at the meeting.'