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If you want a private chat with a friend or client on you Network, you don't need to download any fancy program!
All you need is your friends IP address and Command Prompt.

Firstly, open Notepad and enter:

@echo off
:A
Cls
echo MESSENGER
set /p n=User:
set /p m=Message:
net send %n% %m%
Pause
Goto A

Now save this as "Messenger.bat". Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see:

MESSENGER
User:

After "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.
After this, you should see this:

Message:

Now type in the message you wish to send.
Before you press "Enter" it should look like this:

MESSENGER
User: 56.108.104.107
Message: Hi

Now all you need to do is press "Enter", and start chatting!

Yeah, I used to have this, but lost it when my computer crashed. Thanks for refreshing my memory
The only thing is, I don't think .bat will run on linux....

Dr Small

So in other words you can contact any computer which you know the ip address of?

No on *your* network

Its a interesting little script, but quite useless when messengers are free anyway...

I remember that NET SEND thing once.. I had something sent to me, but it came up with "jesus loves you" or something... I was like "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

We had someone do a net send * and it went to every computer in the school including the technicians. Surprisingly command prompt was disabled after that.

Well, the only way for this .bat file to work, is the messenger service has to be enabled on the computer of which you wish to send the message(s) to. Therefore, if they have the messenger service disabled, it won't do send....

Dr Small

Hmmm... doesn't work on vista

I think the "send" command was removed from the "net" program in Vista...