This is the command netkit-ntalk that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
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’ or ‘pts/X’.
When first called, talk contacts the talk daemon on the other user's machine, which 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 that user. At this point, he then replies 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; their
output will appear in separate windows. Typing control-L (^L) will cause the screen to be
reprinted. The erase, kill line, and word erase characters (normally ^H, ^U, and ^W
respectively) will behave normally. To exit, just type the interrupt character (normally
^C); talk then moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen and restores the terminal to its
previous state.
As of netkit-ntalk 0.15 talk supports scrollback; use esc-p and esc-n to scroll your window,
and ctrl-p and ctrl-n to scroll the other window. These keys are now opposite from the way
they were in 0.16; while this will probably be confusing at first, the rationale is that the
key combinations with escape are harder to type and should therefore be used to scroll one's
own screen, since one needs to do that much less often.
If you do not want to receive talk requests, you may block them using the mesg(1) command.
By default, talk requests are normally not blocked. Certain commands, in particular
nroff(1), pine(1), and pr(1), may block messages temporarily in order to prevent messy
output.
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