Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-15 Thread nate
quote who=Ron Johnson Using apt-cache search doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using the wrong keyword to search by!) while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is a cool program, it won't do a popup(as far as i know) but it can broadcast a message out to connected servers on a

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:55:39AM -0700, nate wrote: quote who=Ron Johnson Using apt-cache search doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using the wrong keyword to search by!) while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is a cool program, it won't do a popup(as far as i know) but

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 04:53, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:55:39AM -0700, nate wrote: quote who=Ron Johnson Using apt-cache search doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using the wrong keyword to search by!) while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Using apt-cache search doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using the wrong keyword to search by!) $ apt-cache search popup [...] Any other suggestions? xitalk: $ apt-cache show xitalk Package: xitalk Priority: optional Section: x11

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I could run samba and linpopup on both ends, but that seems like a big waste, since that's all I'd use samba for... Any other suggestions? talk if it's just unix. Get talk and talkd.

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Petr Vanek
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:41:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Any other suggestions? talk if it's just unix. Get talk and talkd. I don't think there's Windows clients, though. who did say that? ;-) :

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Using apt-cache search doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using the wrong keyword to search by!) If you want instant messaging capabilities, you could try Jabber. There are plenty of Jabber clients out there, and setting up a