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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
1.4       aaron      48: .Nm talk
1.1       deraadt    49: is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
                     50: terminal to that of another user.
                     51: .Pp
                     52: Options available:
                     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
                     57: is just the person's login name.  If you wish to talk to a user on
                     58: another host, then
                     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,
                     73: .Nm talk
                     74: sends the message
                     75: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
1.5       pjanzen    76: Message from Talk_Daemon@localhost...
1.1       deraadt    77: talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
                     78: talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
                     79: .Ed
                     80: .Pp
                     81: to the user you wish to talk to. At this point, the recipient
                     82: of the message should reply by typing
                     83: .Pp
                     84: .Dl talk \ your_name@your_machine
                     85: .Pp
                     86: It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies, as
1.5       pjanzen    87: long as the login name is the same.  If the machine is not the one to which
1.3       pjanzen    88: the talk request was sent, it is noted on the screen.
                     89: Once communication is established,
1.1       deraadt    90: the two parties may type simultaneously, with their output appearing
                     91: in separate windows.  Typing control-L
                     92: .Ql ^L
                     93: will cause the screen to
                     94: be reprinted, while your erase, kill, and word kill characters will
                     95: behave normally.  To exit, just type your interrupt character;
                     96: .Nm talk
                     97: then moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the
                     98: terminal to its previous state.
                     99: .Pp
                    100: Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the
                    101: .Xr mesg 1
                    102: command.  At the outset talking is allowed.  Certain commands, in
                    103: particular
                    104: .Xr nroff 1
                    105: and
                    106: .Xr pr 1 ,
                    107: disallow messages in order to
                    108: prevent messy output.
                    109: .Pp
                    110: .Sh FILES
                    111: .Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact
                    112: .It Pa /etc/hosts
                    113: to find the recipient's machine
                    114: .It Pa /var/run/utmp
                    115: to find the recipient's tty
                    116: .El
                    117: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    118: .Xr mail 1 ,
                    119: .Xr mesg 1 ,
                    120: .Xr who 1 ,
                    121: .Xr write 1
                    122: .Sh BUGS
                    123: The version of
                    124: .Xr talk 1
                    125: released with
                    126: .Bx 4.3
                    127: uses a protocol that
                    128: is incompatible with the protocol used in the version released with
                    129: .Bx 4.2 .
                    130: .Sh HISTORY
                    131: The
                    132: .Nm
                    133: command appeared in
                    134: .Bx 4.2 .