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From: tjfs@otter.hple.hp.com (Tim Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: PHONE : no useful.
Message-ID: <860001@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 8 Feb 88 15:32:17 GMT
References: <8801151553.AA18190@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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There's a similar one in the DECUS library that I wrote some time ago, called
NOTIFY.  It has the advantage (if you're a paranoid system manager like me)
that messages from ordinary users are checked to make sure they're not too
long and get prefixed with a banner, like:

***From T_STEELE: Why do we all try and write the same tool?

System administrators, however, get the use of extra flags like:

o Can turn off the ***From USERNAME: tag
o Can send long messages
o Can send messages from a file
o Can send to a terminal (if the user's logged out) or to a username
o Can send to multiple recipients or system-wide
.
.
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It's called NOTIFY, and is available from DECUS on a 600' tape in VMSINSTAL
format for easy (actually, trivial) installation.

Tim