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Re: CAP/Broadcast

#5985
From: Dave Platt
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 22:17
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In article <4926@blake.acs.washington.edu> matter@blake.acs.washington.edu (Matthew Trunnell) writes:
 
> Noticing that a Mac running the Broadcast chooser device responds to an
> ATLOOK poll from a UNIX machine running CAP, I am wondering:  Has anyone
> written any code to send Broadcast messages to a Mac from a workstation?
> It would be nice to have rwall send messages to all the Macs on the LAN
> if, for instance, someone on the UNIX side was messing about with the
> gateway configuration.

I believe that the author of Broadcast will provide you with such a
program, if you send in the requested shareware fee for Broadcast
($25/zone or thereabouts, I think).
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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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Subject: Re: CAP/Broadcast
Keywords: CAP,broadcast
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Date: 14 Dec 89 22:17:51 GMT
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