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. 15fbbd9655SWarner Losh.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 169b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 179b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" without specific prior written permission. 189b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 199b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 209b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 219b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 229b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 239b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 249b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 259b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 269b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 279b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 289b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 299b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 309b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 310de6400bSGleb Smirnoff.Dd February 13, 2012 329b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt WRITE 1 339b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Os 349b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME 359b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm write 369b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd send a message to another user 379b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS 388fe908efSRuslan Ermilov.Nm 399b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ar user 40f682f10cSRuslan Ermilov.Op Ar tty 419b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION 42e8937ba0SPhilippe CharnierThe 43e8937ba0SPhilippe Charnier.Nm 44e8937ba0SPhilippe Charnierutility allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from 459b50d902SRodney W. Grimesyour terminal to theirs. 469b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 479b50d902SRodney W. GrimesWhen you run the 4829909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 499b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form: 509b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 519b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dl Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ... 529b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 539b50d902SRodney W. GrimesAny further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's 549b50d902SRodney W. Grimesterminal. 559b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIf the other user wants to reply, they must run 5629909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 579b50d902SRodney W. Grimesas well. 589b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 599b50d902SRodney W. GrimesWhen you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character. 609b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe other user will see the message 619b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql EOF 629b50d902SRodney W. Grimesindicating that the 639b50d902SRodney W. Grimesconversation is over. 649b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 659b50d902SRodney W. GrimesYou can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you 669b50d902SRodney W. Grimeswith the 679b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mesg 1 689b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand. 699b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 709b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIf the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal, 719b50d902SRodney W. Grimesyou can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal 729b50d902SRodney W. Grimesname as the second operand to the 7329909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 749b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand. 759b50d902SRodney W. GrimesAlternatively, you can let 7629909ffeSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 779b50d902SRodney W. Grimesselect one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest 789b50d902SRodney W. Grimesidle time. 799b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThis is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from 809b50d902SRodney W. Grimeshome, the message will go to the right place. 819b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 829b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string 839b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql \-o , 8436a142c4SRuslan Ermiloveither at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it is the 859b50d902SRodney W. Grimesother person's turn to talk. 869b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe string 879b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ql oo 889b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmeans that the person believes the conversation to be 899b50d902SRodney W. Grimesover. 909b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO 919b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mesg 1 , 929b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr talk 1 , 93fc414536SRuslan Ermilov.Xr wall 1 , 949b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr who 1 959b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY 969b50d902SRodney W. GrimesA 979b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm 989b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand appeared in 99b8923d4cSWolfram Schneider.At v1 . 1004f45d811STim J. Robbins.Sh BUGS 10170ad92abSTim J. RobbinsThe sender's 10270ad92abSTim J. Robbins.Ev LC_CTYPE 10370ad92abSTim J. Robbinssetting is used to determine which characters are safe to write to a 10470ad92abSTim J. Robbinsterminal, not the receiver's (which 10570ad92abSTim J. Robbins.Nm 10670ad92abSTim J. Robbinshas no way of knowing). 107