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Linux Pocket Guide
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Linux Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett
February 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
200 pages
5h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Instant Messaging

gaim

Instant messaging and IRC client

talk

Linux/Unix chat program

write

Send messages to a terminal

mesg

Prohibit talk and write

tty

Print your terminal device name

Linux provides various ways to send messages to other users on the same machine or elsewhere on the Internet. These range from the ancient programs talk and write, which work over Linux terminal devices (ttys), to more modern Instant Messaging clients like gaim.

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