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MESG
!!!MESG
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
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!!NAME


mesg - control write access to your terminal
!!SYNOPSIS


__mesg__ [[__y__|__n__]
!!DESCRIPTION


__Mesg__ controls the access to your terminal by others.
It's typically used to allow or disallow other users to
write to your terminal (see write(1)).
!!OPTIONS


__y__


Allow write access to your terminal.


__n__


Disallow write access to your terminal.


If no option is given, __mesg__ prints out the current
access state of your terminal.


__Mesg__ assumes that it's standard input is connected to
your terminal. That also means that if you are logged in
multiple times, you can get/set the mesg status of other
sessions by using redirection. For example
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!!AUTHOR


Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
!!SEE ALSO


talk(1), write(1), wall(1)
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