| .\" Original author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org |
| .\" Updated by faith@cs.unc.edu, Fri Oct 29 23:22:16 1993 |
| .TH MESG 1 "29 October 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| mesg \- control write access to your terminal |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B mesg |
| .RB [y|n] |
| .br |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B Mesg |
| controls the access to your terminal by others. It's typically used |
| to allow/disallow others users to \fBwrite(1)\fP to your terminal. |
| .SH FLAGS |
| .IP y |
| Allow write access to your terminal. |
| .IP n |
| Disallow write access to your terminal. |
| .IP [none] |
| Prints out the current access state of your terminal. |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR write (1), wall (1) |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org |