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1.1     ! root        1: .TH TALK 1 "27 June 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: talk \- talk to another user
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B talk
        !             7: person [ ttyname ]
        !             8: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             9: .I Talk
        !            10: is a visual communication program which
        !            11: copies lines from your terminal to that of
        !            12: another user.
        !            13: .PP 
        !            14: If you wish to talk to someone on you own machine, then
        !            15: .I person
        !            16: is just the person's login name. If you wish to talk to
        !            17: a user on another host, then
        !            18: .I person
        !            19: is of the form :
        !            20: .sp
        !            21: .in +2.0i
        !            22: .I host!user
        !            23: \ or
        !            24: .br
        !            25: .I host.user
        !            26: \ or
        !            27: .br
        !            28: .I host:user
        !            29: \ or
        !            30: .br
        !            31: .I user@host
        !            32: .br
        !            33: .in -2.0i
        !            34: .sp
        !            35: though
        !            36: .I host@user 
        !            37: is perhaps preferred.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: If you want to talk to a user who is logged in more than once,
        !            40: the
        !            41: .I ttyname
        !            42: argument may be used to indicate the
        !            43: appropriate terminal name.
        !            44: .PP
        !            45: When first called,
        !            46: it sends the message
        !            47: .PP
        !            48:      Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine...
        !            49:      talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
        !            50:      talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
        !            51: .PP
        !            52: to the user you wish to talk to. At this point, the recipient
        !            53: of the message should reply by 
        !            54: typing 
        !            55: .PP
        !            56:      talk \ your_name@your_machine
        !            57: .PP
        !            58: It doesn't matter from 
        !            59: which machine the recipient replies, as long as his login-name is
        !            60: the same.
        !            61: Once communication is established, the two parties may type 
        !            62: simultaneously, with their output appearing in separate windows. 
        !            63: Typing control L will cause the screen to be reprinted, while your 
        !            64: erase, kill, and word kill characters will work in talk as normal.
        !            65: To exit,
        !            66: just type your interrupt character;
        !            67: .I talk
        !            68: then moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores 
        !            69: the terminal.
        !            70: .PP
        !            71: Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the
        !            72: .I mesg
        !            73: command.
        !            74: At the outset talking is allowed.
        !            75: Certain commands, in particular
        !            76: .I nroff
        !            77: and
        !            78: .IR  pr (1)
        !            79: disallow
        !            80: messages in order to prevent messy output.
        !            81: .PP
        !            82: .SH FILES
        !            83: /etc/hosts     to find the recipient's machine
        !            84: .br
        !            85: /etc/utmp      to find the recipient's tty
        !            86: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            87: mesg(1), who(1), mail(1), write(1)

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