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One of the simplest hacks you can do with znol is to have your znol list of who is logged on be sent to you as a Zephyrgram instead of being in the xterm where you typed the command. This is done with UNIX redirection, sending the output of the znol program to zwrite as the message. To do this, you would type
znol | zwrite yourusername
Another popular program which many people use to replace both znol and zwrite is called xzewd. It was written by a user, Eddie Kohler, <eddietwo>. It is an X application that gives you lots of windows with silly graphics for your znol list and for sending Zephyrs from. In order to use xzewd, you need to type
add outland; xzewd &
If you have problems with xzewd, you should bring them to eddietwo@mit.edu.
Other programs that some people use include xznol and xzwrite. xzwrite can be found in the standard athena release. To read more about it, type
man xzwrite
xznol is written by a SIPB member, Marc Horowitz, <marc>. For more information about it, you need to type
add marc; man xznol
Both of these programs are X applications that do similar things to znol and zwrite, in their own window rather than from an xterm.