62 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
62 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
'\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
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.\" Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Miquel van Smoorenburg.
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.\"
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.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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.\" (at your option) any later version.
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.\"
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.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\"
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.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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.\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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.\"
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.\"{{{}}}
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.\"{{{ Title
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.TH MESG 1 "Feb 26, 2001" "" "Linux User's Manual"
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.\"}}}
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.\"{{{ Name
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.SH NAME
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mesg \- control write access to your terminal
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.\"}}}
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.\"{{{ Synopsis
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B mesg
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.RB [ y | n ]
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.\"}}}
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.\"{{{ Description
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Mesg
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controls the access to your terminal by others. It's typically used to
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allow or disallow other users to write to your terminal (see \fBwrite\fP(1)).
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.\"}}}
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.\"{{{ Options
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.SH OPTIONS
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.IP \fBy\fP
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Allow write access to your terminal.
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.IP \fBn\fP
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Disallow write access to your terminal.
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.PP
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If no option is given, \fBmesg\fP prints out the current access state of your
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terminal.
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.\"}}}
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.\"{{{ Notes
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.SH NOTES
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\fBMesg\fP assumes that its standard input is connected to your
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terminal. That also means that if you are logged in multiple times,
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you can get/set the mesg status of other sessions by using redirection.
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For example "mesg n < /dev/pts/46".
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.SH AUTHOR
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Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
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.\"}}}
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.\"{{{ See also
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR talk (1),
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.BR write (1),
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.BR wall (1)
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.\"}}}
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