Sending a message to a Mac in my LAN?
Hi,
I know the 'talk' utility but that need the other party to start talk (or at least have a Terminal session open), too.
I want to send a text message, a short string (typically one-liner) immediately to another Mac's screen here in my LAN. Just like the "net send" thingy on Windows.
I'm sure there's a way or some nice open source tool, right? Need a pointer because my googling wasn't very successful, yet.
Thanks a lot!
Stefan.
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