This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
testes
Article: 7952 of alt.hackers From: Andy D <bluesky@troas.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: testes Date: 3 Jun 1995 06:14:49 +0100 Organization: Cold Harbour Lines: 16 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Approved: mydoghasnonose@how.does.he.smell? Message-ID: 802155403snz@troas.demon.co.uk Reply-To: bluesky@troas.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dispatch.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 X-Posting-Host: troas.demon.co.uk Status: RO
Yes, yet another person majoring in the bleedin' obvious :) ObHack: There is a little VAX program called MSG.EXE around which lets you pop a message up on any users screen by using the decphone protocol, even if you do not have the necessary system privileges. I used a small .COM (batch) file in conjuction with the DELIVER mail processing system to strip off the username of anyone who sent me a mail message, write it to a temporary file along with a message, and then MSG that to the user. It used a lexical to check if I was logged in at the time, and sent a different message back if I wasn't. --------------------------------------- Andy D bluesky@troas.demon.co.uk ...... ad1com@basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk ---------------------------------------