MSEND - Immediate message sending program for UNIX machines
(c) Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Jim Frost. All Rights Reserved.
Please see the accompanying file "Copyright" for more information.
This utility is very similar to "rsend", allowing messages to be sent
to different users on different machines. "rsend" was, in turn based
on "send" which use the SMTP SEND commands for message delivery (see
RFC 821). "msend" implements the UMTP protocol described in
"Protocol" with other enhancements to make life easier on the user.
See the accompanying man page for details.
Simple instructions for installation are in "Configuration".
With regards to portability, the current version of msend was compiled
and tested on the following machines:
Machine OS
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Sun 3 SunOS 4.0.2,4.0.3,4.1.1
Sun 4 (& clones) SunOS 4.0.3,4.1,4.1.1
SGI 4D/25 IRIX 3.0
SGI Indigo IRIX 4.0
IBM R/6000 AIX 3.1.5, 3.1.6
HP Series 700 HP-UX 8.01 (?)
Older versions have run on:
Machine OS
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Encore Multimax UMAX 4.2 R3.1
Sun 2 SunOS 3.2, 3.5
VAX 11/750 4.3 BSD UNIX
msend should run on any machine that has BSD networking support with
few changes and can be modified quickly to use other reliable
networking systems.
Special thanks to the following people for ideas and code segments:
Adam Bryant (adb@bucsf.bu.edu)
Phil Budne (budd@bu-it.bu.edu)
Jason Heirtzler (jdh@bu-it.bu.edu)
Joe Ilacqua (spike@bu-it.bu.edu)
Barry Shein (bzs@bu-it.bu.edu)
John Solomon (jsol@bu-it.bu.edu)
Len Tower (tower@bu-it.bu.edu)
(11/05/92) Msend is a client/daemon that allows users to send tty messages to other users both locally and over a network (including the Internet). It is very flexible, offers support for GNU readline (not included), and has an rc file to allow a user to forward all incoming messages. This copy of the source has been tweaked a bit to compile on the NeXT. I have compiled and run the daemon and client under 2.1, 2.2, and 3.0, each time without a problem. The only cosmetic change I have made to the program is to have it bell when a message comes in (which is not how it shipped.) I run this package in conjunction with the TCP wrappers package which reports all incoming daemon activity. I will happily submit a copy of this if there is demand. Note that there is something that needs to be done in NetInfo for msendd to work correctly. Look in the 'Configuration' file for more info. I have included precompiled versions for those of you without compilers. -Eric Litman Fed. Region, NeXT Campus Consultant
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