Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!paul From: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Sending messages Message-ID: <1220@aucs.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 88 11:48:24 GMT Reply-To: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) Distribution: na Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia Lines: 28 I administer a diverse PhoneNET network spanning several buildings. We run MacJANET networking software. It has lots of useful features but one thing that it has missing is a broadcast message facility. Once in a while, I have to take the network down while people are logged onto the MacJANET server. Unfortunately, there is no way in MacJANET to notify these users to save to work and log off. I have recently been sent a copy of a PD program called Broadcast which appears as a chooser device and does allow what I want, but it is not exactly what I want. For one thing, I don't want regular users to have this same facility since students tend to abuse it. Also, the program is 13K, which is too much for our already cramped boot disks. What I need is a simple Init that I can place in the system folder that does nothing more than recieve messages from some sending program on another workstation. The sending program should have the ability to send to all users or just to individual users. I know that such a thing should be possible since broadcast does it (and more). I want a cut down version of Broadcast that allows only receiving, cannot be disabled (except by deleting the init), and is less than 5K in size. If someone knows of such a program, please let me know. Thanks. (By the way, it's great to be back on the net!) -- Paul H. Steele USENET: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Paul Acadia University BITNET: Paul@Acadia Wolfville, NS Internet: Paul%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU CANADA B0P 1X0 (902) 542-2201x587