September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Name
write
Synopsis
writeuser[tty]message
Initiate or respond to an interactive conversation with user. A write session is terminated with EOF. If the user is logged into more than one terminal, specify a tty number. See also talk; use mesg to keep other users from writing to your terminal.