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 your 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 ap-
          propriate 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 yourname@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
          CONTROL-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 ter-
          minal.

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






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     talk(1N)                                                 talk(1N)



     FILES
          /usr/bin/talk
          /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 A/UX Communications User's Guide.















































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