Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] how to send messages to Macs?
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Tue May 04 1999 - 18:42:14 EDT
If I remember correctly it has something to do with the University of
Illinois's ACM. I would try checking there (the UI domain is uiuc.edu).
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Russell Hoffman wrote:
>
> Osma writes:
>
> > SMB/Samba has a feature which allows sending Windows machines on the
> > network a message that will appear as a popup window on the machine
> > (NET /SEND or smbclient -M). This is handy if you need to alert
> > Windows users of a file server going down, for instance (send a
> > message to every host listed by smbstatus).
>
> When I was an undergrad at CMU (too many years ago!), we had a program
> called "Broadcast" that did exactly what you are looking for. Last I
> checked, it is still available, htough I'm not sure where to get it or
> what the prerequisites are. Might try looking at CMU's ftp server,
> something like ftp.cs.cmu.edu.
>
> Russ Hoffman
> russ(a)whiterose.net
>
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