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| .\"{{{ Title |
| .TH MESG 1 "Feb 26, 2001" "" "Linux User's Manual" |
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| .\"{{{ Name |
| .SH NAME |
| mesg \- control write access to your terminal |
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| .\"{{{ Synopsis |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B mesg |
| .RB [ y | n ] |
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| .\"{{{ Description |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B Mesg |
| controls the access to your terminal by others. It's typically used to |
| allow or disallow other users to write to your terminal (see \fBwrite\fP(1)). |
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| .\"{{{ Options |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .IP \fBy\fP |
| Allow write access to your terminal. |
| .IP \fBn\fP |
| Disallow write access to your terminal. |
| .PP |
| If no option is given, \fBmesg\fP prints out the current access state of your |
| terminal. |
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| .\"{{{ Notes |
| .SH NOTES |
| \fBMesg\fP assumes that its standard input is connected to your |
| terminal. That also means that if you are logged in multiple times, |
| you can get/set the mesg status of other sessions by using redirection. |
| For example "mesg n < /dev/pts/46". |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl) |
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| .\"{{{ See also |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR talk (1), |
| .BR write (1), |
| .BR wall (1) |
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