sending messages to other users

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 01:52 pm, Bill Warner wrote:
> wall, echo, talk, are all some of the ones you can use.
>
> if you have permision (ie as root) you can
> echo "hi" >> /dev/pts/pts/?
>
> you can use wall or the really old unix tool talk will give you an irc
> or im style communication with the user.

Ah.. 'talk'. I met my wife using that trusty old tool. She was having
problems with *something* (dunno why I can't remember what) and she heard of
this geek that was good at solving those types of problems. So she saw I was
logged in and sent a 'talk' request.. and the rest is history :-)