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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man1/talk.1 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man1/talk.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e9627877 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man1/talk.1 @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" 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. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)talk.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 4/22/91 +.\" $Id: talk.1,v 1.15 2000/07/30 23:57:02 dholland Exp $ +.\" +.Dd November 24, 1999 +.Dt TALK 1 +.Os "Linux NetKit (0.17)" +.Sh NAME +.Nm talk +.Nd talk to another user +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm talk +[-p encoding] +.Ar person +.Op Ar ttyname +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Talk +is a visual communication program which copies lines from your +terminal to that of another user. +.Pp +Options available: +.Bl -tag -width encoding +.It Ar encoding +The charset encoding sent by your peer (i.e. UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, +EUC-JP, whatever). Default is some guesswork based on the incoming +data and your current locate. +.It Ar person +If you wish to talk to someone on your own machine, then +.Ar person +is just the person's login name. If you wish to talk to a user on +another host, then +.Ar person +is of the form +.Ql user@host . +.It Ar ttyname +If you wish to talk to a user who is logged in more than once, the +.Ar ttyname +argument may be used to indicate the appropriate terminal +name, where +.Ar ttyname +is of the form +.Ql ttyXX +or +.Ql pts/X . +.El +.Pp +When first called, +.Nm talk +contacts the talk daemon on the other user's machine, which sends the +message +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine... +talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine. +talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine +.Ed +.Pp +to that user. At this point, he then replies by typing +.Pp +.Dl talk \ your_name@your_machine +.Pp +It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies, as +long as his login name is the same. Once communication is established, +the two parties may type simultaneously; their output will appear +in separate windows. Typing control-L (^L) +.\".Ql ^L +will cause the screen to +be reprinted. The erase, kill line, and word erase characters +(normally ^H, ^U, and ^W respectively) +will behave normally. To exit, just type the interrupt character +(normally ^C); +.Nm talk +then moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the +terminal to its previous state. +.Pp +As of netkit-ntalk 0.15 +.Nm talk +supports scrollback; use esc-p and esc-n to scroll your window, and +ctrl-p and ctrl-n to scroll the other window. These keys are now +opposite from the way they were in 0.16; while this will probably be +confusing at first, the rationale is that the key combinations with +escape are harder to type and should therefore be used to scroll one's +own screen, since one needs to do that much less often. +.Pp +If you do not want to receive talk requests, you may block them using the +.Xr mesg 1 +command. By default, talk requests are normally not blocked. +Certain commands, in particular +.Xr nroff 1 , +.Xr pine 1 , +and +.Xr pr 1 , +may block messages temporarily in order to +prevent messy output. +.Pp +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact +.It Pa /etc/hosts +to find the recipient's machine +.It Pa /var/run/utmp +to find the recipient's tty +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mail 1 , +.Xr mesg 1 , +.Xr who 1 , +.Xr write 1 , +.Xr talkd 8 +.Sh BUGS +The protocol used to communicate with the talk daemon is braindead. +.Pp +Also, the version of +.Xr talk 1 +released with +.Bx 4.2 +uses a different and even more braindead protocol that is completely +incompatible. Some vendor Unixes (particularly those from Sun) have +been found to use this old protocol. +.Pp +Old versions of +.Nm talk +may have trouble running on machines with more than one IP address, +such as machines with dynamic SLIP or PPP connections. This problem is +fixed as of netkit-ntalk 0.11, but may affect people you are trying to +communicate with. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . |