Talk
is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
terminal to that of another user.
Options available:
-tag -width ttyname
Ar person
If you wish to talk to someone on your own machine, then
person
is just the person's login name. If you wish to talk to a user on
another host, then
person
is of the form
user@host .
Ar ttyname
If you wish to talk to a user who is logged in more than once, the
ttyname
argument may be used to indicate the appropriate terminal
name, where
ttyname
is of the form
ttyXX
or
pts/X .
When first called,
talk
contacts the talk daemon on the other user's machine, which sends the
message
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Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine...
talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
to that user. At this point, he then replies by typing
talk \ your_name@your_machine
It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies, as
long as his login name is the same. Once communication is established,
the two parties may type simultaneously; their output will appear
in separate windows. Typing control-L (^L)
