talk—allows you to talk to another user

talk username [ ttyname ]

talk is a visual communications program that copies lines from your terminal to that of another user.

Example A.45.
talk joe@cowboys

EXPLANATION

Opens a request to talk to user joe on a machine called cowboys.

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