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4.2 KiB
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144 lines
4.2 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: talk.1,v 1.9 2007/01/08 17:10:59 christos Exp $
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.\" @(#)talk.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\"
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.Dd January 7, 2007
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.Dt TALK 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm talk
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.Nd talk to another user
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Ar person
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.Op Ar ttyname
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
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terminal to that of another user.
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.Pp
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Options available:
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.Bl -tag -width ttyname
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.It Ar person
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If you wish to talk to someone on your own machine, then
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.Ar person
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is just the person's login name.
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If you wish to talk to a user on another host, then
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.Ar person
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is of the form
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.Ql user@host .
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.It Ar ttyname
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If you wish to talk to a user who is logged in more than once, the
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.Ar ttyname
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argument may be used to indicate the appropriate terminal
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name, where
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.Ar ttyname
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is of the form
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.Ql ttyXX .
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.El
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.Pp
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When first called,
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.Nm
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sends the message
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine...
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talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
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talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
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.Ed
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.Pp
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to the user you wish to talk to.
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At this point, the recipient
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of the message should reply by typing
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.Pp
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.Dl talk \ your_name@your_machine
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.Pp
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It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies, as
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long as his login-name is the same.
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Once communication is established,
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the two parties may type simultaneously, with their output appearing
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in separate windows.
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Typing control-L
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.Ql ^L
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will cause the screen to
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be reprinted, while your erase, kill, and word kill characters will
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behave normally.
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To exit, just type your interrupt character;
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.Nm
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then moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the
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terminal to its previous state.
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.Pp
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Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the
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.Xr mesg 1
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command.
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At the outset talking is allowed.
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Certain commands, in
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particular
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.Xr nroff 1
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and
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.Xr pr 1 ,
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disallow messages in order to
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prevent messy output.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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If the
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.Ev TALKHOST
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environment variable is set, its value is used as the
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.Ar hostname
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the
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.Nm
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packets appear to be originating from.
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This is useful if you wish to talk to someone on another machine and
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your internal hostname does not resolve to the address of your
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external interface as seen from the other machine.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact
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.It Pa /etc/hosts
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to find the recipient's machine
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.It Pa /var/run/utmp
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to find the recipient's tty
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mail 1 ,
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.Xr mesg 1 ,
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.Xr who 1 ,
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.Xr write 1
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The version of
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.Nm
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released with
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.Bx 4.3
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uses a protocol that
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is incompatible with the protocol used in the version released with
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.Bx 4.2 .
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