See http://ss64.com/nt/net_send.html for example.
Kees
This is my first post here so, if I?m in the wrong forum let me know.
I would like to find away to text message between laptops and pc within my home network. So many ads over the years have promoted PC?s and software as ways to ?get connected.? Yet at times we have four people in four rooms, each doing different things on computers, and we can?t talk to each other on them.
I?m not big on being logged in to a global chat network all the time. It seems there should be a way to send text down the hall without going out of my network.
We have two laptops running Vista, one running XP and me stuck here on a big box running XP Home. The network device is a Lynksys-G router.

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