3.3

Customizing Dictionaries
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6. Type w (lowercase w) to save your changes to disk and type q to quit edit.
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To change a default dictionary value, do the following:
1. Edit the dictionary file.
See the previous procedure.
2. Type a message like the following:
NRCS-A: broadcast System going down at 1:55 pm. Please log out.
3. Type offline to bring the system offline. This will prevent users from logging in.
4. At the designated time, type
list s to see whether anyone is still logged in.
If there is someone logged in, a message similar to the following appears:
G500 terryl A
5. If anyone is logged in, type logout all to log them out.
6. Type
stop all to stop all servers.
7. Enter superuser mode at the console.
8. Type
makemontab -i
After modifying a dictionary, run makemontab and maketab to have your system read
the modified dictionaries and incorporate changes into its programs.
9. Type
maketab -i
The maketab command translates each dictionary and then displays unused space in
these dictionaries.
If you changed the name of a command in a command dictionary, you must also change
the function key definition that references that command.
10. Restart all devices.
11. At the prompt, exit from superuser using Ctrl+D.
12. Back up your site files with the sitedump command.
If you do not have one of your site files, a message similar to the following appears
when you run the makemontab or maketab console command:
Translating </site/dict/queues>
Cannot access translation file </site/dict/queues>.
Do you wish to use the standard English translations and continue?
(n/y)