Netsend equivalent

[Ron Goulard]

XP (and I think 2k as well) use the 'messenger' service for this rather
than the winpopup from 9x.  It's on by default in XP and 2k I believe.

There's a piece of software called LinPopUp available at
http://www.littleigloo.org/downloads_002.php3, both in source tarball
and rpm, though it's not specifically for Fedora (needs gtk+ >=
v1.2.0).  It is released under GPL.  If someone can point out a newer
piece of software (or fedora specific) that does the same thing, then by
all means, do tell :)

I have no experience at all with this one and have no idea if it's being
actively worked on either.  My experience has been that _most_ RH based
rpm's will work just fine under Fedora, but like I said, I've never
tried this one.  Feel free to experiment if you like though.

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 04:22, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:10, dhananjoy chowdhury wrote:
> > to create the message
> > smbclient -M <hostname>
> > <your message> 
> > then Ctrl+D to send it 
> 
> Thanks guys, The problem with this is the recipient must be running
> win-popup.
> Now on Win2k and Win-XPlease boxes (using netsend) you can send the
> recipient a message that appears in the form of dialogue box that just
> appears, no win-popup required, I would like to abuse the feature from
> my Linux box.
> mmmm I wonder if netsend will run in wine! I'll get back to later
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> Chadley - Linux Rocks
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