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2 __NAME__
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5 talk - talk to another user
6 __SYNOPSIS__
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9 talk person [[ttyname]
10 __DESCRIPTION__
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13 Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines
14 from your terminal to that of another user.
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17 Options available:
18 person
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21 If you wish to talk to someone on your own machine,then person is just the person's login name. If youwish to talk to a user on another host, then personis of the form user@host.
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24 ttyname
25 If you wish to talk to a user who is logged in more than
26 once, the ttyname argument may be used to indi- cate the
27 appropriate terminal name, where ttyname is of the form
28 ttyXX or pts/X.
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31 When first called, talk contacts the talk daemon on the
32 other user's machine, which sends the message
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2 perry 35 Message from !TalkDaemon@his_machine...
1 perry 36 talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
37 talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
38 to that user. At this point, he then replies by typing
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41 talk your_name@your_machine
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44 It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies,
45 as long as his login name is the same. Once communication is
46 established, the two parties may type simultaneously; their
47 output will appear in separate windows. Typing con- trol-L
48 (^L) will cause the screen to be reprinted. The erase, kill
49 line, and word erase characters (normally ^H, ^U, and ^W
50 respectively) will behave normally. To exit, just type the
51 interrupt character (normally ^C); talk then moves the
52 cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the terminal
53 to its previous state.
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56 As of netkit-ntalk 0.15 talk supports scrollback; use esc-p
57 and esc-n to scroll your window, and ctrl-p and ctrl-n to
58 scroll the other window. These keys are now opposite from
59 the way they were in 0.16; while this will probably be con-
60 fusing at first, the rationale is that the key combinations
61 with escape are harder to type and should therefore be used
62 to scroll one's own screen, since one needs to do that much
63 less often.
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66 If you do not want to receive talk requests, you may block
67 them using the mesg(1) command. By default, talk
68 requests are normally not blocked. Certain commands, in
69 particular nroff(1), pine(1), and
70 pr(1), may block messages temporarily in order to
71 prevent messy output.
72 __FILES__
73 /etc/hosts
74 to find the recipient's
75 machine
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78 /var/run/utmp
79 to find the recipient's tty
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82 __SEE ALSO__
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85 mail(1), mesg(1), who(1),
86 write(1), talkd(8)
87 __BUGS__
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90 The protocol used to communicate with the talk daemon is
91 braindead.
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94 Also, the version of talk(1) released with 4.2 BSD uses a different and even more braindead protocol that is com- pletely incompatible. Some vendor Unixes (particularly those from Sun) have been found to use this old protocol. There's a patch from Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche (jmseyas@dit.upm.es) which makes talk/talkd, if compiled with -DSUN_HACK, compat- ible with SunOS/Solaris' ones. It converts messages from one protocol to the other.
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97 Old versions of talk may have trouble running on machines
98 with more than one IP address, such as machines with dynamic
99 SLIP or PPP connections. This problem is fixed as of
100 netkit-ntalk 0.11, but may affect people you are trying to
101 communicate with.
102 __HISTORY__
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105 The talk command appeared in 4.2 BSD
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2 perry 109 Linux !NetKit (0.17) November 24, 1999 1
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