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AMIN(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   AMIN(1)

NAME

       amin - notify writers that you are busy

SYNOPSIS

       amin [-ynesp] command [args...]

DESCRIPTION

       Amin  is  used when you don't want to be written while running a command.  It runs the command given normally.  If your message permissions
       (see mesg(1)) are off, it does nothing much else.  If your messages are on, people writing you with write(1) will be warned  that  you  are
       running that command and will be given the opportunity to change their minds about writing you.

       The  -n	option	may  be used to turn your messages entirely off for the duration of the execution of command.  People writing you will get
       "Permission denied".  The -y option turns your message permissions on for the duration of the execution of the command.	The -e may be used
       after  either -n or -y to indicate that the logins listed in the .yeswrite or the .nowrite files respectively are exceptions to the message
       permissions set.  The default is -s which leaves your message permissions in their original state.  In any case, after the command is  com-
       plete, your permissions will be restored to the original state.

       The  -p	flag causes all telegrams sent to you while the command is running to be saved.  They are displayed as soon as the command is com-
       plete.  If used with the -n flag, writes are refused, but telegrams are still saved.

       If you have designated yourself as a helper, you will still be marked on the finger(1) output as a helper while you are	running  amin  but
       people doing ``write help'' will not be connected to you, even if you have the helper flag set to ``Y''.

AUTHOR

       Jan Wolter

FILES

       /etc/wrttmp    to find message permissions
       /etc/utmp to find user

SEE ALSO

       mesg(1), finger(1), write(1), huh(1).

7th Edition							   July 1, 1991 							   AMIN(1)

WRITE(1)                                                    BSD General Commands Manual                                                   WRITE(1)

NAME

     write -- send a message to another user

SYNOPSIS

     write user [tty]

DESCRIPTION

     The write utility allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from your terminal to theirs.

     When you run the write command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form:

           Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...

     Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified user's terminal.  If the other user wants to reply, they must run write as well.

     When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character.  The other user will see the message 'EOF' indicating that the conversation is
     over.

     You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you with the mesg(1) command.

     If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal, you can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the termi-
     nal name as the second operand to the write command.  Alternatively, you can let write select one of the terminals - it will pick the one
     with the shortest idle time.  This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from home, the message will go to the right
     place.

     The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string '-o', either at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it is
     the other person's turn to talk.  The string 'oo' means that the person believes the conversation to be over.

SEE ALSO

     mesg(1), talk(1), wall(1), who(1)

HISTORY

     A write command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.

BUGS

     The sender's LC_CTYPE setting is used to determine which characters are safe to write to a terminal, not the receiver's (which write has no
     way of knowing).

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