right programme for sending messages between networked computers

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Robert M Jones - 21 Jul 2006 13:04 GMT

Two networked machines (via an ADSL router, one wired, one wirless),
wired has Win98SE, wireless is XP Home.
Norton Antivirus, and Zone Alarm free on both machines (different versions).
The network works fine - I'm new to networking and to XP.
How do I set up simple messaging between the two machines but avoid
getting all that messenger spam please?
I THINK that I need to set up Windows Messenger - is that correct?

Many thanks.

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Richard G. Harper - 21 Jul 2006 21:18 GMT

You can open a command prompt in Windows XP and use the NET SEND command,
the Windows 98 computer will need to have Winpopup installed and running to
send and receive messages in this way.

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> Two networked machines (via an ADSL router, one wired, one wirless), wired
> has Win98SE, wireless is XP Home.
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> Many thanks.

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Robert M Jones - 21 Jul 2006 22:44 GMT

> You can open a command prompt in Windows XP and use the NET SEND command,
> the Windows 98 computer will need to have Winpopup installed and running to
> send and receive messages in this way.

Thank you. Someone sent me a link to winsent.exe and I am trying that -
it seems to work fine although a bit thin on help files! (none)

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Haggis - 24 Jul 2006 13:42 GMT

>> You can open a command prompt in Windows XP and use the NET SEND command,
>> the Windows 98 computer will need to have Winpopup installed and running
>> to send and receive messages in this way.
>
> Thank you. Someone sent me a link to winsent.exe and I am trying that - it
> seems to work fine although a bit thin on help files! (none)

here is where it came from :>

http://winpopup2000.narod.ru/eng/history.html

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