Jeff Kell wrote:
>
> IBM's CMS has a mechanism to do this; essentially it generates a signal to
> a procedure which can them capture the origin and text of the message.  Most
> of the "daemons" (listserv, mailer, smtp, etc) will "talk back" to you.  It
> certainly beats message file inter-communication.  If you're going to go to
> the trouble of setting some session variable to the origin, grab the text
> too and possibly generate a signal/look for a special message file/something.
>
> Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
>
 
Anyone for implementing the Unix-style "write" command? It (generally) is more
polite than a TELL and easy to reply to.
 
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