User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

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Enhanced Reference
Command and Utility Summary
The simplest way to send a message is to type it from the MS-DOS prompt.
You can type a longer message (over several lines) by pressing ENTER after
net send alias and after each line of text. To send the message, press
CTRL+Z or F6, and then press ENTER.
LAN Manager Enhanced provides several ways to broadcast a message,
meaning send a message to many users on the network. You can broadcast
messages to all the aliases in your workstation domain (use * or /domain), a
different domain (use /domain:name), or the entire network (use /
broadcast). Broadcast messages must be 128 characters or fewer. Use this
feature with discretion.
To send a message that includes a slash mark (/), you must enclose the entire
message in quotation marks (" "). Otherwise, LAN Manager assumes the
slash mark represents the beginning of a command option. The message is
not sent, and you receive the following error message:
NET3506: The option / is unknown.
Examples
• To send the message “Meeting changed to 3 p.m. Same place.” to the alias jackst,
type:
net send jackst Meeting changed to 3 p.m. Same place.
Another way to type this message is
net send jackst
Meeting changed to 3 p.m.
Same place.
Press ENTER after each line.
To send this message, press CTRL+Z or F6, and then press ENTER.
• To send the small text file INVITE.DOC to all the aliases in the legal domain,
type:
net send /domain:legal <invite.doc
• To inform everyone in your workstation domain that a party is being held in the
cafeteria, type:
net send * There's a party in the cafeteria!