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In article <848@massey.ac.nz> GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) writes:
>We run a network with a large number of PC using the Sun Microsystems
>PC-NFS software.  I am interested in being able to write or obtain
>some form of TSR that we can use as the basis for a very simple
>messaging system.  Due to the single process nature of a PC the
>process must be able to check for messages periodically or be awoken
>when a message arrives.  The latter can probably be achieved using
>the PC-NFS toolkit, but applications written with it tend to be
>rather large and that would not be desirable for a TSR.  The former
>technique is what we had in mind.  By 'watching' a file on a network
>drive it ought to be possible to detect the arrival of a message in
>that file and to then display it.

Geoff told me ,three months ago, that he was working ,among many other
things,on such a device.
He then suggested to 'watch' a file on an NFS monted drive
with a TSR.

>
>I had thought that a clock based TSR would work, but I don't really
>want a message popping up in the middle of a graphics application.
>Another thought was to try do the check everytime an application
>returned to COMMAND.COM or whatever shell the user has, but I am not
>sure how this is best achieved.

I had the same problem, when I tried to make it.I found later in the
PC Bible (a book written by Michael TISCHER) a TSR source. It saves the
screen content before displaying something. But I had to stop my
investigations and until now, I had no time to test it.
I also thought about testing the file existence every XX keystrokes ...

>
>Has anyone already written something like this, if you haven't but
>have thought about what conclusions did you reach.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

I am, indeed, interested too.

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