TALK(1)                                                             TALK(1)


NAME
     talk8 - talk to another user

SYNOPSIS
     talk8 person [tty_name]

DESCRIPTION
     Talk (talk8) is a visual communication program which copies lines from
     your terminal to that of another user.

     Options available:

     person   If you wish to talk to someone on your own machine, then person
              is just the person's login name.  If you wish to talk to a user
              on another host, then person is of the form `user@host'.

     tty_name If you wish to talk to a user who is logged in more than once,
              the tty_name argument may be used to indicate the appropriate
              terminal name, where tty_name is of the form `ttyXX'.

     When first called, talk sends the message
           Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine...
           talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine.
           talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine

     to the user you wish to talk to. At this point, the recipient of the
     message should reply by typing

           talk8  your_name@your_machine

     It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies, as long as
     his login-name is the same.  Once communication is established, the two
     parties may type simultaneously, with their output appearing in separate
     windows.  Typing  will cause the screen to be reprinted,
     while your erase, kill, and word kill characters will behave normally.
     To exit, just type your interrupt character; talk then moves the cursor
     to the bottom of the screen and restores the terminal to its previous
     state.

     This version of talk does not filter non USASCII (i.e. ISO646) characters.
     When used in conjunction with ISO6937/2-Telnet this feature allows both
     communicating parties to use ISO6937/2 national character coding scheme. 

     Using talk8 it is also possible to communicate with other user who uses
     standard (i.e. unmodified) version of talk. In such a case, it is advisable
     to restrict communication to ISO646 characters only.

     Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the mesg(1) command.
     At the outset talking is allowed.  Certain commands, in particular
     nroff(1) and pr(1),  disallow messages in order to prevent messy output.

     In order establish communication the talk daemon has to installed on both
     communicating hosts.

SEE ALSO
     mail(1),  mesg(1),  who(1),  write(1),

     NCSA Telnet, or ISO-Telnet user manual,

     ISO6937/2 Information Processing - Coded Character Sets for Text
     Communication - Part 2: Latin Alphabetic and Non-Alphabetic Graphic
     Characters.

BUGS
     The version of talk(1) released with 4.3BSD uses a protocol that is in
     compatible with the protocol used in the version released with 4.2BSD.

     Please report all bugs and comments related to ISO6937/2
     modifications to

	  Janusz J. Mlodzianowski
	  Universty of Gdansk
	  Institute of Experimental Physics
	  Wita Stwosza 57, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland
	  e-mail: fizjm@halina.univ.gda.pl

HISTORY
     The talk command appeared in 4.2BSD
     The version of talk client which has been customized was downloaded
     from ftp.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.8.5)

SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY
     ISO6937/2 Talk client software is available via anonymous ftp,
     from server panda.bg.univ.gda.pl (153.19.120.249):pub/msdos/iso

			  01 June 1995