I. EQUEL/FORMS Examples : Message
 
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Message
Displays a message on the screen.
Examples—message statement:
Example 1:
The following example displays a message for three seconds:
## message "please enter an employee number"
## sleep 3
Example 2:
The following example displays a message before initializing two forms. Does not sleep, because the forminit can take a few seconds to complete.
## message "initializing forms ..."
## forminit empform, deptform
Example 3:
The following example displays a pop-up error message using a buffer:
## message errorbuf with style=popup