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__NAME__


write - send a message to another user
__SYNOPSIS__


write user [[ttyname]
__DESCRIPTION__


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


When you run the write 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 write 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 mesg(1)
command.


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
write command. Alternatively, you can let write 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 oo means that the person believes the
conversa- tion to be over.
__SEE ALSO__


mesg(1), talk(1), wall(1),
who(1)
__HISTORY__


A write command appeared in Version 1 AT
 .


BSD June 6, 1993 1
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