Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Communicating with Other Users Using write

Most of the time when you connect to a Unix system, you’ll be communicating with the computer. You can, though, communicate with other people logged in to the same system. write is ideal for getting a quick message to other users—kind of like putting a yellow sticky note on their computer, as Figure 12.3 shows.

Figure 12.3. You can send quick messages to another user on your system with write.

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To Communicate with Other Users Using write:

1.	write userid At the shell prompt, type write followed by the userid of the person to whom you want to send a message. You’ll get a blank ...