# can i popup messages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-popup-messages/159931>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 8, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-popup-messages/159931 "2003-03-08T17:38:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-popup-messages/159931/1 "2003-03-08T17:38:39Z")

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a simple yes no will suffice ( if yes, how ?)  
Can i message other computers on a LAN using WinXp(home)( both computers running XP) and have the message pop up on the machine.  
No-one runs msn on teh gateway pc downstairs and its a niggle running downstairs to find its ip. would be nice to just request it.

On a related note, how do i go about writing a script that will so something like ( write the ip of the gatewayPC to a text file and stre it in its shared folder so that i can run the script and read the file from the shared folder ( stupid dynamic ip)

I tried searching for the first question, adn couldnt find any prev.posts.

Thanks in advance ( i know the second one is really easy, i just dont know what i’m supposed to use for this script)

Qis

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**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-popup-messages/159931/2 "2003-03-08T17:46:11Z")

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What an awfully typed post, and i want the message to appear on the screen, not the actual machine ( although that would be neat )

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**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-popup-messages/159931/3 "2003-03-08T17:48:52Z")

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I think you can, if you know the IP… but is that what you are trying to use the message to figure out?

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**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-popup-messages/159931/4 "2003-03-08T18:08:06Z")

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I know the ip of the lan-adapter, but not the ip of the modem connectiong the gateway to the internet. I would like to be able firstly to message the computer downstairs( the gateway machine) and request whoever is on it to message me back the ip of the modem.  
I quite like the idea of a littel script to run somethig like

“ipconfig\>currentgatewayip.txt” ( but i dont know how to go about writing this script )

i know the initial post was a bit duff, sorry.