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From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White)
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Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
Keywords: accounting, communications
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Date: 16 Jan 90 19:29:25 GMT
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In article <581@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton) writes:
>AppleShare could really use better facilities for keeping track of and
>communicating with users.  To wit:
>
>* The ability to send messages to any or all users at any time,
>  instead of only when the server is about to shut down.

  You can use the Broadcast rdev to do this.  It allows you to send a message
to one or all users on a network.  It's public domain/shareware.

						Jeff White
						University of Pennsylvania
						jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu