Re: WinPopUp type messages from FreeBSD to Mac OS X

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Charles Howse wrote: Anyone know of a command-line program that will pop-up a window on my Mac with a message from FreeBSD? If you're running an X server on your Mac (Xorg, XFree86), then you can use the xmessage(1) tool, with the $DISPLAY variable set appropriately. It can even be used to

Re: WinPopUp type messages from FreeBSD to Mac OS X

2009-04-01 Thread Terry
Charles Howse wrote: Hi, Anyone know of a command-line program that will pop-up a window on my Mac with a message from FreeBSD? If you ever used earlier versions of Windows, there was 'net send' ('course, that was Windows to Windows). I'd like to find something that I can script to send a

Re: WinPopUp type messages from FreeBSD to Mac OS X

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Howse
On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Terry wrote: Charles Howse wrote: Hi, Anyone know of a command-line program that will pop-up a window on my Mac with a message from FreeBSD? If you ever used earlier versions of Windows, there was 'net send' ('course, that was Windows to Windows). smbclient