112 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
112 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: write.1,v 1.4 1997/01/09 20:23:27 tls Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" from: @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $NetBSD: write.1,v 1.4 1997/01/09 20:23:27 tls Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1993
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.Dt WRITE 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm write
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.Nd send a message to another user
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm write
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.Ar user
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.Op Ar ttyname
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Write
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allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from
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your terminal to theirs.
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.Pp
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When you run the
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.Nm write
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command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form:
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.Pp
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.Dl Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...
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.Pp
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Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's
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terminal.
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If the other user wants to reply, they must run
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.Nm write
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as well.
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.Pp
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When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character.
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The other user will see the message
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.Ql EOF
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indicating that the
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conversation is over.
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.Pp
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You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you
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with the
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.Xr mesg 1
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command.
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Some commands, for example
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.Xr nroff 1
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and
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.Xr pr 1 ,
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disallow writing automatically, so that your output isn't overwritten.
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.Pp
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If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal,
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you can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal
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name as the second operand to the
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.Nm write
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command.
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Alternatively, you can let
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.Nm write
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select one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest
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idle time.
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This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from
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home, the message will go to the right place.
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.Pp
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The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string
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.Ql \-o ,
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either at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it's the
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other person's turn to talk.
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The string
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.Ql oo
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means that the person believes the conversation to be
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over.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mesg 1 ,
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.Xr talk 1 ,
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.Xr who 1
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.At v6 .
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