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1 perry 1 MESG
2 !!!MESG
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 AUTHOR
8 SEE ALSO
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10 !!NAME
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13 mesg - control write access to your terminal
14 !!SYNOPSIS
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17 __mesg__ [[__y__|__n__]
18 !!DESCRIPTION
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21 __Mesg__ controls the access to your terminal by others.
22 It's typically used to allow or disallow other users to
23 write to your terminal (see write(1)).
24 !!OPTIONS
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27 __y__
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30 Allow write access to your terminal.
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33 __n__
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36 Disallow write access to your terminal.
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39 If no option is given, __mesg__ prints out the current
40 access state of your terminal.
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43 __Mesg__ assumes that it's standard input is connected to
44 your terminal. That also means that if you are logged in
45 multiple times, you can get/set the mesg status of other
46 sessions by using redirection. For example
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48 !!AUTHOR
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51 Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
52 !!SEE ALSO
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55 talk(1), write(1), wall(1)
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