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KSMS - KDE Short Message Service - is (or should become) a frontend program for the pager software yaps. This combination allows you to send pager messages using an analog modem or ISDN interface connected to a linux box somewhere in your lan. yaps was command line driven, but with minor changes it could run as a server.
If you want to send messages to a pager or a mobile, there are other solutions available. The most well known are email or web gateways, but either the service is not provided for free or it has certain limitations (it does not allow you to send multiple messages,...). Another solution is an internal email gateway. This is possible if you install the wmm perl package which is also based on yaps (iX 3/98, Wartala www.heise.de)
Running the server version of yaps on a lan, your W*ND*WS clients may also telnet (yes, M$ supplies it) to yaps and deliver their messages. Perhaps a client for M$-OS will be added later ?
As the project started it was first called KPager, but unfortunately this name was already used by a desktop pager, so it is called KSMS.
(it is 0.1)
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