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| 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 --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 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 --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 |
| 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 $ |
| 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 | 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 |
| 54.Nm write | 54.Nm |
| 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 |
| 62.Nm write | 62.Nm |
| 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 |
| 79.Nm write | 79.Nm |
| 80command. 81Alternatively, you can let | 80command. 81Alternatively, you can let |
| 82.Nm write | 82.Nm |
| 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 --- 14 unchanged lines hidden --- | 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 --- 14 unchanged lines hidden --- |