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From: burow@physics.utoronto.ca (Burkhard Burow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: write on a remote host
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.095355.17978@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: 20 Feb 90 14:53:56 GMT
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Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
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I'd like to be able to do the remote equivalent of the local command:

>echo hello | write burow

Mesage from burow@helios.physics on ttyp1 at 9:43 ...
hello
EOF
>

One can't simply rsh this since write, for its header, tries to find 
the terminal executing the command, and of course there is none on the
remote machine.

I don't want to use mail, since in my application I'll be sending this 
command to every machine that the recipient is logged on.

talk, doesn't work since the std i/o has to be a terminal.


e-mail comments, solutions, etc. please and I'll post what works.

thank you

burk