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From: kovar@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (David C. Kovar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A "fix" for wall.
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Date: 3 Apr 89 05:37:15 GMT
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In article <717@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott) writes:
>That is, I don't see any reason
>for wall to send more than one message to a given user/hostname pair
>(where "hostname" is loosely defined to allow for xterms and remote
>logins to the local machine).

  How do you plan on determining the "correct" user/hostname pair to send
the message to? When using X or SunView, I tend to start up a number of
terminal windows and leave a number of them closed. Sending a message to
just one window that happens to be closed is useless unless you can let
the user know that he should open the window for a message.

  Granted, I always leave open the Console window and if you send a message
to that window I'll almost always see it but that doesn't help the person
who fires up two xterms on my machine and closes one of them. Which one do
you talk to?

-David C. Kovar