Mesg

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The correct title of this article is mesg. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

mesg is a Unix command that sets or reports the permission other users have to write to your terminal using the talk and write commands.

mesg is invoked as: mesg [y|n]

The 'y' and 'n' options respectively allow and dissallow write access to your terminal. When invoked with no option, the current permission is printed.

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