In this blog post, you will learn about some OpenBSD features that can be useful, but not widespread.
They often have a niche usage, but it’s important to know they exist to prevent you from reinventing the wheel.
Solène Rapenne
Written by Solène Rapenne, who also happens to be an OpenBSD developer, so a great source for information like this.
Talk?
So many 90s memories…
I remember using talk at university in the early 90s on Sun machines.
I completely forgot about talk!
Talk in university was a menace. We were all on a single machine. You’d get random drunk messages from strangers if you were on late night checking your email.
I’ve used talk a Little at school many years ago on our Linux server, but not many people know how to talk back, SO it wasn’t usefull for me.
Yeah, typical first days using a shared Unix system in the 90’s.
– learn about write, talk and ANSI escape codes.
– everyone messes up with everyone else’s terminal
– add “mesg n” to .profile and get back to sanity