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diff --git a/term-utils/write.1 b/term-utils/write.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb8475e --- /dev/null +++ b/term-utils/write.1 @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.TH WRITE 1 "March 1995" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +write \- send a message to another user +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B write +.I user +.RI [ ttyname ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B write +allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from +your terminal to theirs. +.PP +When you run the +.B write +command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form: +.PP +.RS +Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ... +.RE +.PP +Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's +terminal. If the other user wants to reply, they must run +.B write +as well. +.PP +When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character. The other +user will see the message +.B EOF +indicating that the conversation is over. +.PP +You can prevent people (other than the superuser) from writing to you with +the +.BR mesg (1) +command. Some commands, for example +.BR nroff (1) +and +.BR pr (1), +may automatically disallow writing, so that the output they produce +isn't overwritten. +.PP +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 giving the terminal +name as the second operand to the +.B write +command. Alternatively, you can let +.B 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. +.PP +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 conversation to be over. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR mesg (1), +.BR talk (1), +.BR who (1) +.SH HISTORY +A +.B write +command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. +.SH AVAILABILITY +The write command is part of the util-linux package and is available from +https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |