Re: ISO talk-like utility

[Radu Brumariu <brum76@gmail.com>]

'write' ?

kynn@panix.com wrote:

>Hi!  I am looking for a simple utility that would enable users to send
>simple messages to the tty of another user currently logged on
>(e.g. "your job # 12345 is slowing down the system!").  The purpose is
>to communicate urgent messages for which e-mail may be too slow (since
>with e-mail, the communication happens only when the recipient chooses
>to read his/her mail).
>
>In other systems that I have worked on there was a command "talk" for
>this sort of thing.  What is the standard utility in Debian systems
>for this sort of thing?
>
>Thanks!
>
>kj
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