Unix: 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 another user, 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.

To communicate with other users using write:

1.	write userid At the shell prompt, type write followed by the userid of the person you want to send a message to. You'll get a blank line with a blinking cursor ...