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.\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" Modified for Linux, Sun Mar 12 10:21:01 1995, faith@cs.unc.edu
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.TH WRITE 1 "March 1995" "util-linux" "User Commands"
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write \- send a message to another user
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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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command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form:
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Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...
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Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's
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terminal. If the other user wants to reply, they must run
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When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character. The other
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user will see the message
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indicating that the conversation is over.
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You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you with
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command. Some commands, for example
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may disallow writing automatically, so that your output isn't overwritten.
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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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command. Alternatively, you can let
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select one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest idle
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time. This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up
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from home, the message will go to the right place.
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The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string `\-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. The string `oo' means that the person
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believes the conversation to be over.
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command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
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The write command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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