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Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user. To use talk, type the following:
talk login@fully.qualified.domain.name
Replace login with the user's login, and fully.qualified.domain.name with the user's site.
If you're on a BSD system and you want to find out who is currently logged in and what their logins are, type the following:
moeh Moe Hawthorne s4 24 Fri 15:22 :0.0 griff Griff McClellan se 1d Wed 11:23 sirius.cs.pdx.ed alf Anthony Fiarito co Fri 15:20 tytran The Hitman p0 Sat 03:15 malach.cs.pdx.ed riceman Rich Rice p6 12: Fri 15:05 137.161.6.79 johnj Tail Cat *pa Sat 03:17 pcat144.cs.pdx.e antoy Sergio Antoy q9 2d Thu 09:10 antares.cs.pdx.e
From this list, you can see that Moe is logged in. You can send him a message using talk by typing the following:
talk moeh
If your login is "larr", moeh will get a message at his terminal that looks something like the following:
Message from Talk_Daemon@rigel at 10:07 ... talk: connection requested by larr@cs.pdx.edu.edu talk: respond with: talk larr@cs.pdx.edu
From here, moeh can answer you using talk. When he does, talk splits your screen in two and shows your typing in one half and moeh's in the other half. Both you and moeh will see both sides of the conversation.
When you finish each of your messages, type <0>, for "over", to tell moeh that your message is over. When you're ready to quit, type <0 + 0 >, for "over and out", to tell Moe you're quitting. To exit talk, type ctrl-c.
Note: If the person you are trying to talk with is logged onto a computer more than once,
you may experience problems connecting. The computer can not tell which tty port you want it to
use. To help the computer out, give the tty after the users name:
talk moeh ttyp3
To find out the tty of another user, use the finger command.
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