pidgin
|
Instant messaging and IRC client. |
talk
|
Linux/Unix chat program. |
write
|
Send messages to a terminal. |
mesg
|
Prohibit |
tty
|
Print your terminal device name. |
Linux provides various ways to send messages to other users on the
same machine or elsewhere on the Internet. These range from the ancient
programs talk
and write
, which work over Linux terminal devices
(ttys), to more modern instant messaging clients like pidgin
.
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