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TALK(1)                   BSD General Commands Manual                  TALK(1)

NAME
     talk - talk to another user

SYNOPSIS
     talk person [ttyname]

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

     Options available:

     person   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'.

     ttyname  If you wish 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' or 'pts/X'.

     When first called, talk contacts the talk daemon on the other user's machine, which
     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 that user. At this point, he then replies 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 simultane-
     ously; their output will appear in separate windows.  Typing control-L (^L) will
     cause the screen to be reprinted. The erase, kill line, and word erase characters
     (normally ^H, ^U, and ^W respectively) will behave normally.  To exit, just type the
     interrupt character (normally ^C); talk then moves the cursor to the bottom of the
     screen and restores the terminal to its previous state.

     As of netkit-ntalk 0.15 talk supports scrollback; use esc-p and esc-n to scroll your
     window, and ctrl-p and ctrl-n to scroll the other window. These keys are now opposite
     from the way they were in 0.16; while this will probably be confusing at first, the
     rationale is that the key combinations with escape are harder to type and should
     therefore be used to scroll one's own screen, since one needs to do that much less
     often.

     If you do not want to receive talk requests, you may block them using the mesg(1)
     command.  By default, talk requests are normally not blocked.  Certain commands, in
     particular nroff(1), pine(1), and pr(1), may block messages temporarily in order to
     prevent messy output.

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

SEE ALSO
     mail(1), mesg(1), who(1), write(1), talkd(8)

BUGS
     The protocol used to communicate with the talk daemon is braindead.

     Also, the version of talk(1) released with 4.2BSD uses a different and even more
     braindead protocol that is completely incompatible. Some vendor Unixes (particularly
     those from Sun) have been found to use this old protocol.

     Old versions of talk may have trouble running on machines with more than one IP
     address, such as machines with dynamic SLIP or PPP connections. This problem is fixed
     as of netkit-ntalk 0.11, but may affect people you are trying to communicate with.

HISTORY
     The talk command appeared in 4.2BSD.

Linux NetKit (0.17)            November 24, 1999           Linux NetKit (0.17)

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