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From: David Holloway <daveh@gwythaint.tamis.com>
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>Number:         4191
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       new improved write
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 30 04:40:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Holloway
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
Description: 

This is one of those "why didnt I think of that"
type of improvements on an old standby.


ports files will/have been placed in.
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/nwrite-1.9.tar.gz

Message from daveh on ttyp1 at 06:10:31 ... 
 daveh> This is how nwrite appears 
 daveh> to the recipient of the message, it is preferable
 daveh> to /usr/bin/write, especially on a multi user system.
 daveh> special options specified by a .nwriterc of the 
 daveh> intended nwrite recipient control behaviors such as
 daveh> beeps, delay, and bold.
 daveh> Example dot nwriterc
 daveh> 
 daveh>      headers    1
 daveh>      nodelay    0
 daveh>      beep       0
 daveh>      bold       header
 daveh>      showtarg   multi
 daveh> 
EOF


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>Fix:
	
	

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