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1.1     ! root        1: .TH WRITE 1
        !             2: .CT 1 comm_term comm_users
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: write, mesg \- write to other users, allow or forbid messages
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B write
        !             7: .I person ...
        !             8: .PP
        !             9: .B mesg
        !            10: [
        !            11: .B n
        !            12: ]
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B y
        !            15: ]
        !            16: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            17: .I Write
        !            18: copies lines from your terminal to terminals of other
        !            19: .I persons
        !            20: designated either by login name or
        !            21: (to circumvent occasional ambiguities) by terminal name
        !            22: as given by
        !            23: .IR who (1).
        !            24: It announces to each
        !            25: .I  person
        !            26: your login name, your terminal,
        !            27: and the other
        !            28: .I persons.
        !            29: To respond, each recipient should execute a corresponding
        !            30: .I write
        !            31: to the
        !            32: .I  persons
        !            33: he wants to talk to.
        !            34: .PP
        !            35: When you are writing to more than one person, your
        !            36: messages are identified to the recipients.
        !            37: Writing ceases upon end of file or interrupt,
        !            38: and the message
        !            39: .B EOF
        !            40: is sent to the others.
        !            41: .PP
        !            42: .I Write
        !            43: recognizes certain commands during a conversation:
        !            44: .TP
        !            45: .BI ! cmd
        !            46: Execute a shell on the string
        !            47: .I cmd
        !            48: and then return to
        !            49: .IR write .
        !            50: .TP
        !            51: .BI :a " person"
        !            52: Add
        !            53: .I person
        !            54: to the list of people to whom you are talking,
        !            55: and send an appropriate announcement to all parties.
        !            56: They must do
        !            57: .B :a
        !            58: for themselves if they want to include the new person.
        !            59: .TP
        !            60: .BI :d " person"
        !            61: Drop
        !            62: .I person
        !            63: from your list and make appropriate announcements.
        !            64: .TP
        !            65: .B :l
        !            66: Print a list of people to whom you are talking.
        !            67: .PP
        !            68: The following protocol is suggested for using
        !            69: .IR write .
        !            70: When you invoke
        !            71: .I write,
        !            72: wait for the other user to
        !            73: write back before starting to send.
        !            74: Each party should end each message with a distinctive signal 
        !            75: that the other may reply \- the customary convention is
        !            76: .L (o)
        !            77: for `over';
        !            78: .B (oo)
        !            79: for `over and out' is suggested when conversation
        !            80: is about to be terminated.
        !            81: .PP
        !            82: .I Mesg
        !            83: with argument
        !            84: .B n
        !            85: forbids messages via
        !            86: .IR  write (1)
        !            87: by revoking non-user
        !            88: write permission on the user's terminal.
        !            89: .I Mesg
        !            90: with argument
        !            91: .B y
        !            92: reinstates permission.
        !            93: All by itself,
        !            94: .I mesg
        !            95: reports the current state without changing it.
        !            96: .PP
        !            97: Certain commands, in particular
        !            98: .I nroff
        !            99: and
        !           100: .IR  pr (1)
        !           101: disallow
        !           102: messages in order to prevent messy output.
        !           103: .SH FILES
        !           104: .TF /etc/utmp
        !           105: .TP
        !           106: .F /etc/utmp
        !           107: to find user
        !           108: .TP
        !           109: .F /bin/sh
        !           110: to execute 
        !           111: .L !
        !           112: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           113: .IR who (1), 
        !           114: .IR mail (1), 
        !           115: .IR vismon (9.1)
        !           116: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !           117: .I Mesg
        !           118: yields exit status 0 if messages are receivable, 1 if not,
        !           119: 2 on error.
        !           120: .SH BUGS
        !           121: .IR Mux (9.1)
        !           122: generally prevents the receipt of
        !           123: .I write
        !           124: messages, but 
        !           125: .IR vismon (9.1)
        !           126: permits them.
        !           127: .br
        !           128: Messages ought to be identified when the recipient is receiving from
        !           129: more than one writer, rather than when a writer is sending
        !           130: to more than one recipient,
        !           131: but that requires cooperating processes and isn't
        !           132: worth the effort.

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