This program allows you to send messages (like "write") to remote users.

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+rmsg contains a messaging system which can be used to send
+write-like messages to logged-on users.  The system can cross machine
+boundaries, so if another machine has the rmsgd program running, you can
+send messages to users on it.
+
+The system also allows bitnet virtual machine-like 'virtual users'
+to whom any user can send messages and they can answer the messages.
+The rmsgd server makes this possible by allowing a command 'exec' in a users
+.msgconf file, and whenever the user receives a message this command is
+executed and the message is piped to it.
+
+It is also possible to log incoming and outgoing messages and resend previous
+sent message.  You can specify a file to which the last (or every) incoming
+message will be stored.
+
+Using the programs:
+-------------------
+
+Rmsgd:
+
+Rmsgd is the server program for the system.  It should be started by root,
+but for now it works even if started by ordinary users, even though
+some capabilities are disabled for security reasons (that is, exec and 
+logging of incoming messages, since that would be done by the user-id
+who started rmsgd and not the receiver).
+
+At any time, there should be only one rmsgd running.  It doesn't do any harm
+to have several rmsgds other than the newly-started servers unmap the
+previous and thus the previous servers are unusable.
+
+The server should be named 'rmsgd' to have it start as a daemon.
+
+
+Rmsg:
+
+Rmsg is the client end of the system.  Rmsg is used by ordinary users
+to send messages.  For example, rmsg foo@bar hello there !  ^D would
+send a message 'hello there !' to user foo at machine bar.  By
+default, rmsg stores the last outgoing message in the user's home
+directory in the file .msgout.  Then msg -r user@machine can be used
+to resend the message.  Message is normally read from standard input
+until EOF.
+
+Configuration:
+--------------
+
+The messages system has many options which the user can set by making
+a file '.msgconf' in her home directory and placing various command in it.
+Read the manual page for rmsg for more information.