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alarm message

Raise the cbiviewer alarm.

Mandatory Arguments:
String message
The reason for raising the alarm. This will be displayed in the cbiviewer alarm panel.

Example:
If you want to be woken up when your schedule finishes, you could add the following line to the end of your schedule.
  alarm "The schedule finished."
This would then set off the alarm, and report the message, "The schedule finished" in the cbiviewer alarm panel.
Context:
The alarm command allows one to trigger the audible/phone alarm in cbiviewer from within schedules. It takes a textual message to be displayed in the cbiviewer alarm panel. This allows you to tell the user the reason for the alarm.

Martin Shepherd (16-Nov-2000)