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Date:  Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:05:28 -0500 (EST)
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From:  "Carl Gehr" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: [OS2Wireless] EASY way to do a Local message send...?

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.

Carl


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