19b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993 29b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 39b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 49b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 59b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. 69b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 79b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 89b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 99b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" are met: 109b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 119b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 129b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 139b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 149b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 159b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 169b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 179b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 189b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 199b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 209b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 219b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" without specific prior written permission. 229b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 239b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 249b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 259b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 269b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 279b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 289b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 299b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 309b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 319b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 329b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 339b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 349b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 359b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 36c3aac50fSPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$ 379b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 389b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 6, 1993 399b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt WRITE 1 409b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Os 419b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME 429b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 439b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd send a message to another user 449b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS 458fe908efSRuslan Ermilov.Nm 469b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ar user 479b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Op Ar ttyname 489b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION 499b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm Write 509b50d902SRodney W. Grimesallows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from 519b50d902SRodney W. Grimesyour terminal to theirs. 529b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 539b50d902SRodney W. GrimesWhen you run the 5429909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 559b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form: 569b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 579b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dl Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ... 589b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 599b50d902SRodney W. GrimesAny further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's 609b50d902SRodney W. Grimesterminal. 619b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIf the other user wants to reply, they must run 6229909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 639b50d902SRodney W. Grimesas well. 649b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 659b50d902SRodney W. GrimesWhen you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character. 669b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe other user will see the message 679b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql EOF 689b50d902SRodney W. Grimesindicating that the 699b50d902SRodney W. Grimesconversation is over. 709b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 719b50d902SRodney W. GrimesYou can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you 729b50d902SRodney W. Grimeswith the 739b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mesg 1 749b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand. 759b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 769b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIf the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal, 779b50d902SRodney W. Grimesyou can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal 789b50d902SRodney W. Grimesname as the second operand to the 7929909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 809b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand. 819b50d902SRodney W. GrimesAlternatively, you can let 8229909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 839b50d902SRodney W. Grimesselect one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest 849b50d902SRodney W. Grimesidle time. 859b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThis is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from 869b50d902SRodney W. Grimeshome, the message will go to the right place. 879b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 889b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string 899b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql \-o , 909b50d902SRodney W. Grimeseither at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it's the 919b50d902SRodney W. Grimesother person's turn to talk. 929b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe string 939b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql oo 949b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmeans that the person believes the conversation to be 959b50d902SRodney W. Grimesover. 969b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO 979b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mesg 1 , 989b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr talk 1 , 999b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr who 1 1009b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY 1019b50d902SRodney W. GrimesA 1029b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm 1039b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand appeared in 104b8923d4cSWolfram Schneider.At v1 . 105