Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!heurikon!davek
From: davek@heurikon.UUCP (Dave Klann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Unixpc DWB and UA stuff
Keywords: unixpc
Message-ID: <251@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 88 19:47:26 GMT
References: <6270@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <683@hodge.UUCP> <216@elgar.UUCP>
Reply-To: davek@heurikon.UUCP (David Klann)
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Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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In article <216@elgar.UUCP> ford@elgar.UUCP (Mike "Ford" Ditto) writes:
>Trivia:  the write(1) command sends messages to a user logged in on the
>console by *WRITING* to /dev/error and letting smgr put the pop-up
>window on the screen.  Somebody at CT was on drugs when they came up
>with *that* idea.
>
>					-=] Ford [=-

No Kidding!!!  I almost died when I first discovered that one!  I
thought about writing my own "windowed" version of write(1), but got
sidetracked (as usual).  But wait... there's hope!  Last week I brought
up Jack Bonn's "phone" program.  It works great.  Just what I was
looking for.  It was posted to comp.sources.misc.  If anyone missed it,
and wants it let me know...

Here's the Archive info:

Posting-number: Volume 3, Issue 86
Submitted-by: "Jack Bonn" <jack@swlabs.UUCP>
Archive-name: sys5-phone

David Klann
...uwvax!heurikon!davek (at work)
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