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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1989 The Regents of the University of California.
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        !            21: .TH WRITE 1 "November 21, 1989"
        !            22: .UC 4
        !            23: .SH NAME
        !            24: write - send a message to another user
        !            25: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            26: .B write user
        !            27: [
        !            28: .B ttyname
        !            29: ]
        !            30: .ft R
        !            31: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            32: .I Write
        !            33: allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from
        !            34: your terminal to theirs.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: When you run the
        !            37: .I write
        !            38: command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form:
        !            39: .sp
        !            40: .nf
        !            41: .ti +5
        !            42: Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...
        !            43: .fi
        !            44: .sp
        !            45: Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's
        !            46: terminal.
        !            47: If the other user wants to reply, they must run
        !            48: .I write
        !            49: as well.
        !            50: .PP
        !            51: When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character.
        !            52: The other user will see the message ``EOF'' indicating that the
        !            53: conversation is over.
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you
        !            56: with the
        !            57: .IR mesg (1)
        !            58: command.
        !            59: Some commands, for example
        !            60: .I nroff
        !            61: and
        !            62: .IR pr ,
        !            63: disallow writing automatically, so that your output isn't overwritten.
        !            64: .PP
        !            65: If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal,
        !            66: you can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal
        !            67: name as the second operand to the
        !            68: .I write
        !            69: command.
        !            70: Alternatively, you can let
        !            71: .I write
        !            72: select one of the terminals \- it will pick the one with the shortest
        !            73: idle time.
        !            74: This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from
        !            75: home, the message will go to the right place.
        !            76: .PP
        !            77: The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string ``-o'',
        !            78: either at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it's the
        !            79: other person's turn to talk.
        !            80: The string ``o-o'' means that the person believes the conversation to be
        !            81: over.
        !            82: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            83: mesg(1), talk(1), who(1)

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