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Date:  Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:09:58 -0600
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From:  Sam Lewis <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] EASY way to do a Local message send...?

Carl Gehr wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:53:28 -0600, Sam Lewis wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Carl Gehr wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>This is probably quite elementary for many of you, but I'm not up on
>>>the local LAN and Peer tools...
>>>
>>>My desk is on the bottom level; my wife's is two floors up.  We have a
>>>simple communications problem:
>>>
>>>* Phone rings.
>>>* Wife answers; the call's for me; I'm on the other line.
>>>
>>>=>  What is a really quick and easy way to send a simple message from
>>>'up there' to 'down here' without a lot of set up?   Ideally, the
>>>message would just pop up on my screen and stay there until I kill it. 
>>>More than one?  Pop another message window.
>>>
>>>Seems simple enough...  I'm just more simple...  ;-)  
>>>
>>>Yes, she could always send an E-Mail, but that seems like a bit
>>>excessive, when we have a LAN that both systems are using.  Both
>>>running eCS 1.0.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Carl
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Put Network Messaging in your startup group.  eCS usually does this 
>>automatically when installed.  Also you  could use the AOL Instant 
>>Messenger Express.  It can be started from Mozilla.
>>Sam
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks, Sam!
>
>I thought that might be an option, but the unHELPful text is almost
>worthless.  It says, for example, "Type a destination..."  But, in the
>HELP [not for the helpless], it simply repeats, "Enter a
>destination"...  What is a 'destination'?  Is it a dotted-quad? An
>Internet Name?  Some UserName that I have to set up somewhere?  Where
>does it come from????  <:-(  
>
It means computer name.  I would just Click on the Broadcast button and 
choose entire network.

>
>Just for clarifiecation:  While these systems are on the same LAN, they
>are not 'connected' in any way.  No Peer.  No sharing of anything;
>except, of course, the link to the DSL to the Internet.
>
So how do the two computers access the same DSL device?  Do you use a 
hub?  Need more info.

If both computers are on the internet it may be easier and more straight 
forward to use the AOL AIM Express.  That's what I use from my house to 
workshop plus it other uses.

Sam

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