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                     37: .Dd June 6, 1993
                     38: .Dt TALK 1
1.6       aaron      39: .Os
1.1       deraadt    40: .Sh NAME
                     41: .Nm talk
                     42: .Nd talk to another user
                     43: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     44: .Nm talk
                     45: .Ar person
                     46: .Op Ar ttyname
                     47: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.10      aaron      48: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    49: is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
                     50: terminal to that of another user.
                     51: .Pp
1.8       aaron      52: The command arguments are as follows:
1.1       deraadt    53: .Bl -tag -width ttyname
                     54: .It Ar person
                     55: If you wish to talk to someone on your own machine, then
                     56: .Ar person
1.10      aaron      57: is just the person's login name.
                     58: If you wish to talk to a user on another host, then
1.1       deraadt    59: .Ar person
                     60: is of the form
                     61: .Ql user@host .
                     62: .It Ar ttyname
                     63: If you wish to talk to a user who is logged in more than once, the
                     64: .Ar ttyname
                     65: argument may be used to indicate the appropriate terminal
                     66: name, where
                     67: .Ar ttyname
                     68: is of the form
                     69: .Ql ttyXX .
                     70: .El
                     71: .Pp
                     72: When first called,
1.10      aaron      73: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    74: sends the message
1.10      aaron      75: .Pp
1.1       deraadt    76: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
1.5       pjanzen    77: Message from Talk_Daemon@localhost...
1.1       deraadt    78: talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
                     79: talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
                     80: .Ed
                     81: .Pp
1.11      aaron      82: to the user you wish to talk to.
                     83: At this point, the recipient of the message should reply by typing
1.1       deraadt    84: .Pp
                     85: .Dl talk \ your_name@your_machine
                     86: .Pp
                     87: It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies, as
1.10      aaron      88: long as the login name is the same.
                     89: If the machine is not the one to which
1.3       pjanzen    90: the talk request was sent, it is noted on the screen.
                     91: Once communication is established,
1.1       deraadt    92: the two parties may type simultaneously, with their output appearing
1.10      aaron      93: in separate windows.
                     94: Typing control-L
                     95: .Pq Ql ^L
1.1       deraadt    96: will cause the screen to
1.12    ! aaron      97: be reprinted, while the erase, kill, and word kill characters will
1.10      aaron      98: behave normally.
1.12    ! aaron      99: To exit, just type the interrupt character;
1.10      aaron     100: .Nm
1.1       deraadt   101: then moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the
                    102: terminal to its previous state.
                    103: .Pp
                    104: Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the
                    105: .Xr mesg 1
1.10      aaron     106: command.
                    107: At the outset talking is allowed.
                    108: Certain commands, in particular
1.1       deraadt   109: .Xr nroff 1
                    110: and
                    111: .Xr pr 1 ,
                    112: disallow messages in order to
                    113: prevent messy output.
                    114: .Sh FILES
                    115: .Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact
                    116: .It Pa /etc/hosts
                    117: to find the recipient's machine
                    118: .It Pa /var/run/utmp
                    119: to find the recipient's tty
                    120: .El
                    121: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    122: .Xr mail 1 ,
                    123: .Xr mesg 1 ,
                    124: .Xr who 1 ,
                    125: .Xr write 1
1.9       aaron     126: .Sh HISTORY
                    127: The
                    128: .Nm
                    129: command appeared in
                    130: .Bx 4.2 .
1.1       deraadt   131: .Sh BUGS
                    132: The version of
                    133: .Xr talk 1
                    134: released with
                    135: .Bx 4.3
                    136: uses a protocol that
                    137: is incompatible with the protocol used in the version released with
                    138: .Bx 4.2 .