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MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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wall(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities wall(1)
NAME
wall — write to all logged in users
SYNOPSIS
wall
DESCRIPTION
Note: The MPE/iX implementation of this utility does not function exactly as this man page de-
scribes. For details, see the MPE/iX NOTES section at the end of this man page.
The wall utility reads a message from the standard input until an end-of-file is reached. This
message is then prefixed with Broacast Message ...’ and sent to all users that are cur-
rently logged in.
If a user has issued the
mesg n
command, that user does not receive the message.
DIAGNOSTICS
Possible exit status values are:
0 Successful completion.
1 An error occurred.
Messages
Message: target terminal "term": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: temporary file error: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for alias.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid wall options.
Message: write error on temporary file: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
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