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- MSG sends a one line message to another user or users, possibly over
- the network. We like it much more than write(1) and talk(1).
-
- For example,
- % msg jdoe@othermachine
- Let's go eat!
- %
- jdoe@othermachine: ok - where?
- msg -r
- msg: Replying to 'jdoe@othermachine'
- How about the cafeteria?
- %
-
- To install, add the lines to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf,
- modify the Makefile and */Makefile to your needs, and adjust
- Include/msgoptions.h to set the options that are appropriate for you.
-
- mesg is a modified version of the Berkeley mesg program. The Tahoe
- version appears with the Berkeley copyright - this version is based on
- 4.2 or 4.3, and so I added the Berkeley copyright notice, and assume
- that distribution is ok. This version allows you to set an answerback
- message that will be given to any user trying to send you a message.
- Note that this version has to be setuid root so that it can remove
- other users answerback message files.
-
- We use this on Sun3, Sun4, BSD Vax, Ultrix Vax, MIPS, DEC MIPS, and Sequent.
-
- Note that the service number that we use has not been officially
- registered. If I ever get off my butt, and register a real number,
- it should be relatively easy to update things. Or so I like to think.
- I'd like to encourage everyone to use the same port number i.e. 1241/tcp,
- otherwise we won't be able to talk to each other.
-
- Naturally, no warranties, bug fixes and enhancements accepted, but
- no support committments. Available via anonymous ftp from
- watmath.waterloo.edu in pub/msg.shar.
-
- John Sellens
- Math Faculty Computing Facility
- University of Waterloo
- jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu
-