XTALK(1)               UNIX System V(September 23, 1991)               XTALK(1)


NAME
      xtalk - talk to another user

SYNOPSIS
      xtalk [ person [ ttyname ] ]

DESCRIPTION
      Xtalk is a X11 implementation of 4.3 BSD talk.

      If you don't specify any arguments, a dialogue box will appear where you
      can enter the person (and ttyname) parameters.

      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.

      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,
      where ttyname is of the form ``ttyXX''.

      When first called, xtalk 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 you wish to talk to. At this point, the recipient of the
      message should reply by typing

           xtalk | 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 on separate
      lines.  To exit, just use the quit button.

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

WIDGETS
      xtalk uses the following athena widgets (followed by the instance name):

      XTalk  xtalk
           Paned  paned
                Form  header
                     Command  quit
                     Label  status
                     Command  nameOK
                     Text  nameText
                AsciiText  text
                     TalkSrc  textSrc


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ENVIRONMENT
      DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.

      XENVIRONMENT
              to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
              resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

ORIGIN
      xtalk is derived from the 4.3 BSD talk source.

COPYRIGHT
      Copyright 1991, University of British Columbia

AUTHORS
      Paul Whaley (whaley@ucs.ubc.ca), University Computing Services,
      University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

      George Lindholm (lindholm@ucs.ubc.ca), University Computing Services,
      University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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

SEE ALSO
      mail(1), mesg(1), talk(1), who(1), write(1)

BUGS
      The version of talk(1) released with 4.3BSD uses a protocol that is
      incompatible with the protocol used in the version released with 4.2BSD.
























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