4.3BSD-Reno/share/man/cat1/write.0

WRITE(1)		      1989			 WRITE(1)



NNAAMMEE
     write - send a message to another user

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     wwrriittee uusseerr [ ttttyynnaammee ]

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
     _W_r_i_t_e allows you to communicate with other users, by copying
     lines from your terminal to theirs.

     When you run the _w_r_i_t_e command, the user you are writing to
     gets a message of the form:

	  Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...

     Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified
     user's terminal.  If the other user wants to reply, they
     must run _w_r_i_t_e as well.

     When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt charac-
     ter.  The other user will see the message ``EOF'' indicating
     that the conversation is over.

     You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from
     writing to you with the _m_e_s_g(1) command.  Some commands, for
     example _n_r_o_f_f and _p_r, disallow writing automatically, so
     that your output isn't overwritten.

     If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than
     one terminal, you can specify which terminal to write to by
     specifying the terminal name as the second operand to the
     _w_r_i_t_e command.  Alternatively, you can let _w_r_i_t_e select one
     of the terminals - it will pick the one with the shortest
     idle time.  This is so that if the user is logged in at work
     and also dialed up from home, the message will go to the
     right place.

     The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the
     string ``-o'', either at the end of a line or on a line by
     itself, means that it's the other person's turn to talk.
     The string ``o-o'' means that the person believes the
     conversation to be over.

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