If you are using Windows 2000 and the client machines use Windows 2000 you
can use the console messaging feature. Not sure what the command line tools
are, but you could use cfexecute to process them.
Bernd VanSkiver
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ColdFusion Developer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hannum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:21 AM
Subject: CF and Messager
> Hello,
>
> I'm developing an application were our computer labs can track usage and
> statistics on the machines that are used in there. What I'm looking for
is
> this. Students check in with their ID cards and are asigned a machine.
The
> application then tracks who's on what machine and tracks the time, etc.
> I'd like to place an agent on each machine that talks back to the
> application, and when flagged, say, if the student's time is up, I can
have
> pop up a message telling them time's up. Kinda along the lines of the old
> Novel network messaging system where you could send a message in a popup
box
> to any other machine on the network. Is anybody doing anything like this?
> If so, what are you using for the agent on the client machines?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> ===============================
> David R Hannum
> Ohio University
> Web Analyst/Programmer
> (740) 597-2524
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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