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NAME
     write - write to another user

USAGE
     write node!user [ttyname]
     write user@node [ttyname]

DESCRIPTION
     The write command copies lines from your node to that of
     another user.  When first called, it sends the following
     message:

         Message from yournode!yourname [yourttyname] ...


     The recipient of the message should write back at this
     point.  Communication continues until an end-of-file (EOF)
     is read from the terminal, or an interrupt is sent.  At that
     point, the write program writes "EOT" on the other terminal
     and exits.

     To write to a user who is logged in more than once, use the
     ttyname argument to indicate the appropriate terminal name.

     If write finds an exclamation point (!) at the beginning of
     a line, it calls the shell to execute the rest of the line
     as a command.

     When you first write to a user, wait for a reply before
     sending another message.  Each party should end each message
     with a distinctive signal, such as (o) for "over", or (oo)
     for "over and out" (when you want to terminate the conversa-
     tion).

     In order to accept incoming write messages, a node must be
     running the writed(8c) process, as well as the DOMAIN
     mbx_helper process.  Before SR9.5, it was necessary to start
     an mbx_helper explicitly, but after SR9.5, writed automati-
     cally starts an mbx_helper.

FILES
     /etc/utmp record of who is logged in on the node (link to
               `node_data/etc.utmp)

     /bin/sh   to execute "!"

RELATED INFORMATION
     who(1)
     mail(1)




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