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author | Cameron Katri <me@cameronkatri.com> | 2021-05-09 14:20:58 -0400 |
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diff --git a/basic_cmds/write/write.1 b/basic_cmds/write/write.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7c2df1 --- /dev/null +++ b/basic_cmds/write/write.1 @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +.\" 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 +.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/write/write.1,v 1.10 2002/04/20 12:18:12 charnier Exp $ +.\" +.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dt WRITE 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm write +.Nd send a message to another user +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Ar user +.Op Ar ttyname +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from +your terminal to theirs. +.Pp +When you run the +.Nm +command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form: +.Pp +.Dl Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ... +.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 +.Nm +as well. +.Pp +When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character. +The other user will see the message +.Ql EOF +indicating that the +conversation is over. +.Pp +You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you +with the +.Xr mesg 1 +command. +.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 specifying the terminal +name as the second operand to the +.Nm +command. +Alternatively, you can let +.Nm +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 +.Ql \-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 +.Ql oo +means that the person believes the conversation to be +over. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mesg 1 , +.Xr talk 1 , +.Xr wall 1 , +.Xr who 1 +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +command appeared in +.At v1 . |