Re: Text based synchronous communication tool for Linux?

In article <vj6c8m$be0i$1@dont-email.me>,  <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:
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talk is an age old unix util that allows people on the same machine to chat.
Even MacOS has it installed.

You may (and I stress the word "may") be confusing "talk" with "write".

"write" is old, old Unix and only works on the same machine.
"talk" is multi-machine (via the network).

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