Nwall is a readline interface to the old Unix wall(1) program. It is used primarily on zork.net as a form of chat system, since it sends one line at a time. Running nwall -n opts the user out of nwall messages, while still leaving the tty open for traditional wall/write/talk notices. To return to nwall-visible mode, run nwall -y. Currently nwall does not clear out old lock files when the user logs out, but it does try to see if the user matches teh owner of a lock on a given tty. This means that if you set nwall -n, log out, log back in again on the same tty, you'll still be -n. But if someone else logs in on that tty, they'll still receive nwall messages. The wishlist currently includes: Support for the IRC /me command. Automatic redraw of the prompt when a message comes in (good luck!) Proper autoconfing of the log and lock file locations (currently statically bound to /var/log and /var/lock) Automatic expiration of locks. Use of Syslog to generate log files. Built-in LISP interpreter and mail reader.