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????  <:-(  

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.