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 369b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 379b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 6, 1993 389b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt WRITE 1 399b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Os 409b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME 419b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 429b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd send a message to another user 439b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS 449b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 459b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ar user 469b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Op Ar ttyname 479b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION 489b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm Write 499b50d902SRodney W. Grimesallows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from 509b50d902SRodney W. Grimesyour terminal to theirs. 519b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 529b50d902SRodney W. GrimesWhen you run the 539b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 549b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form: 559b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 569b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dl Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ... 579b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 589b50d902SRodney W. GrimesAny further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's 599b50d902SRodney W. Grimesterminal. 609b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIf the other user wants to reply, they must run 619b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 629b50d902SRodney W. Grimesas well. 639b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 649b50d902SRodney W. GrimesWhen you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character. 659b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe other user will see the message 669b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql EOF 679b50d902SRodney W. Grimesindicating that the 689b50d902SRodney W. Grimesconversation is over. 699b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 709b50d902SRodney W. GrimesYou can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you 719b50d902SRodney W. Grimeswith the 729b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mesg 1 739b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand. 749b50d902SRodney W. GrimesSome commands, for example 759b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr nroff 1 769b50d902SRodney W. Grimesand 779b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr pr 1 , 789b50d902SRodney W. Grimesdisallow writing automatically, so that your output isn't overwritten. 799b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 809b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIf the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal, 819b50d902SRodney W. Grimesyou can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal 829b50d902SRodney W. Grimesname as the second operand to the 839b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 849b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand. 859b50d902SRodney W. GrimesAlternatively, you can let 869b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 879b50d902SRodney W. Grimesselect one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest 889b50d902SRodney W. Grimesidle time. 899b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThis is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from 909b50d902SRodney W. Grimeshome, the message will go to the right place. 919b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 929b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string 939b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql \-o , 949b50d902SRodney W. Grimeseither at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it's the 959b50d902SRodney W. Grimesother person's turn to talk. 969b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe string 979b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql oo 989b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmeans that the person believes the conversation to be 999b50d902SRodney W. Grimesover. 1009b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO 1019b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mesg 1 , 1029b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr talk 1 , 1039b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr who 1 1049b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY 1059b50d902SRodney W. GrimesA 1069b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm 1079b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand appeared in 1089b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.At v6 . 109