net send <name> <text> command?

[Rick Stevens]

Don wrote:
> In Windows, I can use a "net send <machine-name> <text>" command to send 
> a message to another machine on my network. The message is displayed in 
> a pop-up message box on the recipient machine.
>  
> Is there an equivalent command in Linux? (Fedora?) I don't see anything 
> like that under the various options for the "net" command. :-(

Well, there is "talk".  The other machine must be running talkd and
this is ANCIENT technology.
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