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it could be done with a fifo, I believe the command "write" also does this.



+1 write Also you could install an irc server, bind it to localhost, and have a slightly better user experience.


An IRC server for this? Thermonuclear flyswatter.


True, but more scalable when you want a realtime text conversation with more than two people.


Already talking about scaling and we're not even sure it needs to scale...

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