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35.\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
| 1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
5.\" Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
6.\"
7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
9.\" are met:
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14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
21.\" without specific prior written permission.
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35.\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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36.\" $Id: write.1,v 1.4 1997/02/22 19:57:53 peter Exp $
| 36.\" $Id: write.1,v 1.5 1997/03/22 17:19:32 mpp Exp $
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37.\"
38.Dd June 6, 1993
39.Dt WRITE 1
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm write
43.Nd send a message to another user
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm write
46.Ar user
47.Op Ar ttyname
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49.Nm Write
50allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from
51your terminal to theirs.
52.Pp
53When you run the
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38.Dd June 6, 1993
39.Dt WRITE 1
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm write
43.Nd send a message to another user
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm write
46.Ar user
47.Op Ar ttyname
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49.Nm Write
50allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from
51your terminal to theirs.
52.Pp
53When you run the
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54.Nm write
| 54.Nm
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55command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form:
56.Pp
57.Dl Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...
58.Pp
59Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's
60terminal.
61If the other user wants to reply, they must run
| 55command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form:
56.Pp
57.Dl Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...
58.Pp
59Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's
60terminal.
61If the other user wants to reply, they must run
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62.Nm write
| 62.Nm
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63as well.
64.Pp
65When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character.
66The other user will see the message
67.Ql EOF
68indicating that the
69conversation is over.
70.Pp
71You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you
72with the
73.Xr mesg 1
74command.
75.Pp
76If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal,
77you can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal
78name as the second operand to the
| 63as well.
64.Pp
65When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character.
66The other user will see the message
67.Ql EOF
68indicating that the
69conversation is over.
70.Pp
71You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you
72with the
73.Xr mesg 1
74command.
75.Pp
76If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal,
77you can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal
78name as the second operand to the
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79.Nm write
| 79.Nm
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80command.
81Alternatively, you can let
| 80command.
81Alternatively, you can let
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82.Nm write
| 82.Nm
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83select one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest
84idle time.
85This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from
86home, the message will go to the right place.
87.Pp
88The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string
89.Ql \-o ,
90either at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it's the
91other person's turn to talk.
92The string
93.Ql oo
94means that the person believes the conversation to be
95over.
96.Sh SEE ALSO
97.Xr mesg 1 ,
98.Xr talk 1 ,
99.Xr who 1
100.Sh HISTORY
101A
102.Nm
103command appeared in
104.At v1 .
| 83select one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest
84idle time.
85This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from
86home, the message will go to the right place.
87.Pp
88The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string
89.Ql \-o ,
90either at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it's the
91other person's turn to talk.
92The string
93.Ql oo
94means that the person believes the conversation to be
95over.
96.Sh SEE ALSO
97.Xr mesg 1 ,
98.Xr talk 1 ,
99.Xr who 1
100.Sh HISTORY
101A
102.Nm
103command appeared in
104.At v1 .
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