> Hi Henry,
> 
> > And what's about real broadcast messages ? I hate it if any silly
> > program like "write", "comsat", "talk" etc. writes into my tty device,
> > especially when I am using a text editor.
> 
> use "mesg n".

Thanks. Why should I disable messages ??? I *want* to see them, but not
between the text which I am currently editing (in an editor, a shell or
any other application).

> 
> You can even do s.th. of the same effect in .exrc to prevent the vi
> screen of getting messed up.

rm -f `find / -name vi`

> 
> You don't have such problems, of course, with X Window System.

One more window just to get messages... :-( And how many windows should I
create if I work on let's say 3 different machines ? You realy should have
a look into VMS ! Broadcast messages in VMS can be handled by applications
via trap, are separated into different classes, can be enabled or disabled
for each class and can be sent cluster (~domain) wide.

> 
> Regards,
>         Ignatios
>         Ignatios Souvatzis

Henry