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33 .Nd talk to another user
41 utility is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
42 terminal to that of another user.
45 .Bl -tag -width ttyname
47 If you wish to talk to someone on your own machine, then
49 is just the person's login name.
50 If you wish to talk to a user on
60 If you wish to talk to a user who is logged in more than once, the
62 argument may be used to indicate the appropriate terminal
72 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
73 Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine...
74 talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
75 talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
78 to the user you wish to talk to.
79 At this point, the recipient
80 of the message should reply by typing
82 .Dl talk \ your_name@your_machine
84 It does not matter from which machine the recipient replies, as
85 long as his login-name is the same.
86 Once communication is established,
87 the two parties may type simultaneously, with their output appearing
91 will cause the screen to
95 will clear both parts of your screen to be cleared, while
96 the control-D character will be sent to the remote side
97 (and just displayed by this
100 Your erase, kill, and word kill characters will
102 To exit, just type your interrupt character;
104 then moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the
105 terminal to its previous state.
107 Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the
110 At the outset talking is allowed.
112 .Bl -tag -width /var/run/utx.active -compact
114 to find the recipient's machine
115 .It Pa /var/run/utx.active
116 to find the recipient's tty
133 the default behaviour of
135 was changed to treat local-to-local talk requests as originating
138 Before this change, it was required that the hostname (as per
140 resolved to a valid IPv4 address (via
141 .Xr gethostbyname 3 ) ,
144 unsuitable for use in configurations where
146 was bound to the loopback interface (normally for security reasons).
153 is incompatible with the protocol used in the version released with
156 Multibyte characters are not recognized.