JNOS Commands Manual - The W Commands

The W Command Set

write <username|sock#> <message>

     Send a message to a particular user. <message> is the message, 
if "more then one word, put it in quotes."  <username|sock#> can be
either the user name of a mailboxuser, or a valid socket number.
The latter allows you to send a message to a network conference user
etc.  See also 'writeall'.

  E.g.: 'write wg7j "this is a test!"'

  The message will be shown as:

  '<bell>*** Message from sysop




writeall <message>

     Send a message to all mailbox and conference users.  This command is
useful to warn users of an impending shutdown, and might be suitable for
inclusion in your onexit.nos script file.

Example: writeall "N5KNX BBS shutting down...bye!"

See also:  write