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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-07-15 23:07:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-07-16 12:03:25 +0200 |
| commit | 6e72fa5965d121812db5d0186b06fd988bb5699c (patch) | |
| tree | 49cba561b1c054e4e4e3ce69adfaf70ee91d252c /term-utils/write.1 | |
| parent | docs: bring several man pages closer to standard formatting (diff) | |
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docs: bring a few more man pages closer to standard formatting
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'term-utils/write.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | term-utils/write.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/term-utils/write.1 b/term-utils/write.1 index 33eb91408..ad321f4fa 100644 --- a/term-utils/write.1 +++ b/term-utils/write.1 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ write \- send a message to another user .I user .RI [ ttyname ] .SH DESCRIPTION -.B Write +.B write allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from your terminal to theirs. .PP @@ -73,10 +73,11 @@ command. Some commands, for example .BR nroff (1) and .BR pr (1), -may disallow writing automatically, so that your output isn't overwritten. +may automatically disallow writing, so that the output they produce +isn't overwritten. .PP If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal, -you can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal +you can specify which terminal to write to by giving the terminal name as the second operand to the .B write command. Alternatively, you can let |