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Article #501Re: Weird UNIX commands revisited.
From: r.peterson
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1989 20:06
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1989 20:06
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>From article <1989Dec18....@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, by cool...@clutx.clarkson.edu (Pixel,,,):
> Playing around with window last week [...]
> Another interesting side effect is that you can't use talk. Try it and
> you get "You don't exist. Go away."
Actually, this has nothing to do with the ownership of the /dev/tty?? device
node. Window has not made a utmp entry for you - so, as far as write and
talk are concerned, you are *not logged in*.
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