Popup window version of rwall

[Dave Hiebeler]

In article <8902142213.AA00947 at icarus> you write:
>...I'd like to be able to send a message to all of the active clients
>that would be displayed in a popup window with a "Done" box on top of all
>other existing windows. Has anyone done anything like this? Any pointers
>to easily modified code to do something like this? 

One way to do this (other than making everyone use contool, as wnl pointed
out) might be to put the SunView escape-sequences that raise and resize a
window into the broadcast message.  That is, put in the character sequence
that raises the window on top of all others, and perhaps resize it to be a
full-screen window.  (Resizing it would be somewhat obnoxious, but
probably preferable to them not knowing that the fileserver is about to go
away).

I don't know if rwall would filter out those characters; it might be worth
a shot though.  The escape-character sequences are described in the
shelltool man-page.

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