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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Man page of WRITE</TITLE>
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<H1>WRITE</H1>
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Section: User Commands (1)<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">Return to Main Contents</A><HR>
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<BR>BSD mandoc<BR>
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<A NAME="lbAB"> </A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
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<B>write</B>
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- send a message to another user
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<A NAME="lbAC"> </A>
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
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<B></B>
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<I>user</I>
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[<I>tty</I>
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]
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<A NAME="lbAD"> </A>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
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The
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<B></B>
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utility allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from
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your terminal to theirs.
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<P>
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When you run the
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<B></B>
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command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form:
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<P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>Message from <A HREF="mailto:yourname@yourhost">yourname@yourhost</A> on yourtty at hh:mm ...</TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>
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Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's
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terminal.
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If the other user wants to reply, they must run
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<B></B>
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as well.
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<P>
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When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character.
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The other user will see the message
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`EOF'
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indicating that the
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conversation is over.
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<P>
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You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you
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with the
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+mesg">mesg</A>(1)
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command.
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<P>
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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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<B></B>
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command.
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Alternatively, you can let
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<B></B>
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select one of the terminals - it will pick the one with the shortest
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idle time.
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This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from
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home, the message will go to the right place.
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<P>
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The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string
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`-o'
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either at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it is the
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other person's turn to talk.
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The string
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`oo'
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means that the person believes the conversation to be
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over.
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<A NAME="lbAE"> </A>
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+mesg">mesg</A>(1),
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+talk">talk</A>(1),
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+wall">wall</A>(1),
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+who">who</A>(1)
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<A NAME="lbAF"> </A>
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<H2>HISTORY</H2>
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A
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<B></B>
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command appeared in
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AT&T System
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v1 .
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<A NAME="lbAG"> </A>
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<H2>BUGS</H2>
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The sender's
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<B>LC_CTYPE</B>
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setting is used to determine which characters are safe to write to a
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terminal, not the receiver's (which
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<B></B>
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has no way of knowing).
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<P>
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<HR>
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<A NAME="index"> </A><H2>Index</H2>
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<DL>
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<DT id="1"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
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<DT id="2"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
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<DT id="3"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
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<DT id="4"><A HREF="#lbAE">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
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<DT id="5"><A HREF="#lbAF">HISTORY</A><DD>
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<DT id="6"><A HREF="#lbAG">BUGS</A><DD>
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</DL>
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<HR>
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This document was created by
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">man2html</A>,
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using the manual pages.<BR>
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Time: 00:05:08 GMT, March 31, 2021
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