xtalk(1) [debian man page]

XTALK(1)						      General Commands Manual							  XTALK(1)

NAME

       xtalk - X Window System BSD compatible talk client, written in Python.

SYNOPSIS

       xtalk [user[@address[ tty]]

DESCRIPTION

       When  started,  xtalk won't actually try to connect until you click on the "Connect" button in the program.  xtalk accepts addresses in the
       same format as the regular BSD talk program.  From in the program you can enter the address in the "Address" entry.  At any point during  a
       talk session, clicking on "Disconnect" disconnects the session.

       The  format of a talk address is as follows.  To talk to a user on the same host, just use "username" as the address.  To talk to a user on
       another host, use "username@hostname" as the address.  If the user is logged in several times, you can specify which tty to "page" them	on
       by saying "username tty" or "username@hostname tty".

AUTHOR

       Adam P. Jenkins (adampjenkins@yahoo.com)

SEE ALSO

       talk(1)

BUGS

       From user point of view, it seems that his own text in the window is editable, whereas in fact it is not.

																	  XTALK(1)

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'.

     When first called, talk 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

	   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 control-L '^L' will cause the screen to be
     reprinted, while your erase, kill, and word kill characters will behave normally.	To exit, just type your interrupt character; talk then
     moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the terminal to its previous state.

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

ENVIRONMENT

     If the TALKHOST environment variable is set, its value is used as the hostname the talk packets appear to be originating from.  This is use-
     ful if you wish to talk to someone on another machine and your internal hostname does not resolve to the address of your external interface
     as seen from the other machine.

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)

HISTORY

     The talk command appeared in 4.2BSD.

BUGS

     The version of talk 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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