talk(1N)                                                 talk(1N)



     NAME
          talk - talk to another user

     SYNOPSIS
          talk person [ttyname]

     DESCRIPTION
          talk is a visual communication program that copies lines
          from your terminal to that of another user.

          If you wish to talk to someone on you own machine, then
          person is just the person's login name.  If you wish to talk
          to a user on another host connected via Ethernet to a local
          network running B-NET software, then person is of the form:

               host!user  or
               host.user  or
               host:user  or
               user@host


          If you want to talk to a user who is logged in more than
          once, the ttyname argument may be used to indicate the
          appropriate terminal name.

          When first called, it sends the message

               Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine...
               talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
               talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine

          to the user to whom you wish to talk.  At this point, the
          recipient of the message should reply 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,
          with their output appearing in separate windows.  Typing -l
          will cause the screen to be reprinted, while your erase and
          kill characters will work in talk as normal.  To exit, just
          type your interrupt character; talk then moves the cursor to
          the bottom of the screen and restores the terminal.

          Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the
          mesg command.  At the invocation of talk, talking is
          allowed.  Certain commands, in particular nroff and pr(1),
          disallow messages in order to prevent messy output.

     FILES
          /usr/bin/talk



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     talk(1N)                                                 talk(1N)



          /etc/hosts     to find the recipient's machine
          /etc/utmp to find the recipient's tty

     SEE ALSO
          mail(1), mesg(1), who(1), write(1),
          ``Using B-NET'' in Oreo Communications User's Guide.

















































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