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On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Terry wrote:

> Charles Howse wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Anyone know of a command-line program that will pop-up a window on  
>> my Mac with a message from FreeBSD?
>> If you ever used earlier versions of Windows, there was 'net  
>> send' ('course, that was Windows to Windows).

> smbclient -M If I recall

I assume that Samba needs to be installed and running on sending and  
receiving computers for that to work?  Just tried it from the Mac to  
FreeBSD, and it returned "connection to <computer> failed."