Title: net-notify Version: 1 Submitted: Jun 2 1988 Author: Paul Davison Submittor: Paul Davison Description: Network message system, sort of like wall Here's a message sending program for distributed networks that I thought you might be interested in. Full documentation and a Makefile are included. I am the author, and I declare it to be in the public domain. In our lab, it soon became obvious to me that some quick and efficient way of sending short messages to users of the network was needed, without the sender having to be aware of the physical location of the recipient. Therefore I wrote a network-wide message system, which is presented here. It is a one-shot mechanism, similar to "wall", expect that it can be sent to specific users or specific machines. The server is invoked from inetd, so appropriate entries have to be inserted in either "inetd.conf" or "servers", depending on the machine, and also in "services", of course. I have found this software extremely useful and hope that others find it so as well. The program has been tested under Sequent's DYNIX, 4.2BSD, Sun 3.4, and Whitechapel 42nix. It won't work with System V. Cheers, Paul Davison.