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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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