intercept a "net send" message

[Makrini]

Hi all,

This is a tough one.. I am trying to create a lightweight application to be able to "receive" messages from the dos "net send" command. (Yes I am using an old network)

My problem is that when I do a net send it pops up a window which has focus - I would rather have an application that intercepts this and pops the message into the box - without giving this application window the focus.

(i.e. I currently send messages to a group of users - all of whom are taking customer requests and using other applications - the pop up box from net send pops up interupting the user mid sentence. If I could intercept this message and log into a seperate box without making this interuption occur this would be ideal.)

Thanks for all suggestions

 

[nbrcrunch]

Rather than go through all that trouble, why not just start using windows IM? Yahoo IM or the like?

 

[Makrini]

Mainly because it is on systems that we use that belong to our client. They are very wary of adding any programs that might conflict or prove to be security gaps.

Also it needs to only be one way - from one computer to a group of computers.

I can convince them to add a small program - particularly if I can give them the source code to investigate.

There may be an easier way - I just thought this way might be interesting to learn.