User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

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Enhanced Reference
Command and Utility Summary
Net Send
Purpose
The net send command sends a message or short file to one or more users on
a network.
Syntax
net send {alias | * | /domain[:name] | /broadcast} message
where
alias
Is the username, computername, or other name you want to send a message to.
When the alias is a computername that contains blank characters, enclose the
alias in quotation marks (" ").
*
Sends a message to all the aliases in your workstation domain.
/domain:name
If you specify name, the message is sent to all the aliases in the specified domain.
/broadcast
Sends a message to all the aliases on the network.
message
Is the text of a message or the complete path of a text file (preceded by <) you
want to send.
Comments
Use the net send command to send a message to a single user, to users in a
domain, or to all users on the network.
An alias must be logged on, or active on the network to receive a message,
and the Messenger service must be running on the receiving workstation. If
several local area network adapters are used, the workstation can exchange
messages only through the first adapter.
The size of a message that a workstation can receive is limited to 128
characters.