NSEND(1)							       nsend								  NSEND(1)

NAME

       nsend - Send messages to users or groups

SYNOPSIS

       nsend  [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ] [ -a ] -i objectID | -c connNum[,...] | { [ -t recipient type ] -o
       recipient name | recipient name } message

DESCRIPTION

       With nsend, you can send messages to the user's workstations.

       nsend looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file server, a user name and possibly a password. See nwclient(5) for	more  information.
       Please note that the access permissions of .nwclient MUST be 0600, for security reasons.

OPTIONS

       recipient name
	  recipient  name  is either the NetWare name of the user to receive the message or the name of an existing user group on that server. You
	  can use wildcards in this specification.

       -o recipient name
	  Specifies recipient's name. This can specify user or group.

       -t recipent type
	  Specifies recipient's type.

       -c connNum[,...]
	  Specifies connection numbers of recipients. You can use this option as workaround to deliver messages to directory services users.

       -i userID
	  Specifies recipient's object ID. You can use this option as workaround to deliver messages to directory services users.

       message
	  message is the message to be sent. Please note that this has to be a single command line argument. If you want to send  a  message  that
	  contains spaces, you have to quote them on the command line.	For example, to annoy your system administrator, you should try

	     nsend supervisor 'I know how this works!'

	  Program  first  searches  (wildcards	allowed) bindery with recipients name and type. If user is found, message is sent to this user, if
	  group is found, message is sent to this group. Other object types are ignored. If no suitable object was found in this phase, connection
	  list for specified object is retrieved (no wildcards allowed) and message is sent to this object (including print servers and so on). No
	  expansions on group is done this time.

       -a
	  By default, nsend prepends 'From ....' text to message. You can suppress this by adding -a to command line.

       -S server
	  server is the name of the server you want to use.

       -U user name
	  If the user name your NetWare administrator gave to you differs from your unix user-id, you should use -U to tell the server about  your
	  NetWare user name.

       -P password
	  You may want to give the password required by the server on the command line. You should be careful about using passwords in scripts.

       -n
	  -n should be given if specified user does not have password.

	  If neither -n nor -P are given, nsend prompts for a password.

       -C
	  By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off
	  this conversion by -C.

BUGS

       Directory services connection are not supported yet.
       Options -c, -i and -o cannot be used together.
       If user is specified multiple times (using wildcards in group specification or by repeating same number in -c), message is delivered multi-
       ple times to him.

SEE ALSO

       nwclient(5), nprint(1), slist(1), ncpmount(8), ncpumount(8)

CREDITS

       nsend was written by looking at mars_nwe's message handling. Thanks to Martin Stover <mstover@freeway.de>.
       Support for Netware groups by Philippe Andersson <philippe_andersson@ste.scitex.com>.
       Support for connections greater than 255 by Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>.

nsend								    04/07/1999								  NSEND(1)