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The Write Command

2007 October 16
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by Philippe Delodder

If your unable to use the command “write” to talk to other users on the same server or you get this error:

lodder@dionysus:~$ write james
write: write: you have write permission turned off.

To enable it you need to do:

lodder@dionysus:~$ mesg y

To use the “write” command:

lodder@dionysus:~$ write username <return> <type your message>

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