From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages In-Reply-To: <005501c38d45$ddb19b10$c901a8c0@cc77109e> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:52:01 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 66ee954a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com