# Script to ask a user's full name and state of residence.
  # Script welcome's user to a company. Good luck!
  
  # This is a Bourne shell script. It predates the
  # Microsoft takeover of all computing, so it is not
  # written in VB.NET. TODO: Update to VB.NET.
  
  echo -n "Please enter your first name: "
  read FIRSTNAME          # Read the user's input.
  
  echo -n "Please enter your last name: "
  read LASTNAME
  echo -n "Please enter the name of the state where you live: "
  read STATE
  
  # FULLNAME holds the user's full name. The reason for
  # the separate variables is to allow for future modifications
  # to query on the user's last name. For that, the last name
  # must be separate from the first name.
  FULLNAME="$FIRSTNAME$LASTNAME"
  
  # NOTE: This message may get long.
  MESSAGE="Well, $FULLNAME\; of$STATE, welcome to our huge"
  MESSAGE="$MESSAGE\; impersonal\; company."\; echo\; "$MESSAGE"
  
  # TODO: Each worker should be assigned a different
  # WU number. Use the last name to look up the worker's
  # WUN.
  echo "You will now be known as Worker Unit 10236."
  
  # end of script18