Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages

[Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> jmk's original solution achieves this without the operating system
> knowing about rio or any other program.

Really? What solution was that, plumbing? That is certainly another
program. If that were true this would be a non-issue and the original
question would have been some simple command line that had a message
string and some sort of target list (where all users would be a wild card
like *). It is certainly possible to only want to send messages to classes
or groups of users so using a regex needs to be available in the solution
s well.

If it runs it's a program, if it doesn't run its data. Period. There is
zero gray area. If the user has to do anything other than provide the name
of the program, the message, and some identifier for the target group it's
too complicated.

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