diff -Naur util-linux-2.11a.orig/lib/carefulputc.c util-linux-2.11a/lib/carefulputc.c

--- util-linux-2.11a.orig/lib/carefulputc.c	Thu Nov  9 20:57:28 2000

+++ util-linux-2.11a/lib/carefulputc.c	Thu May 17 12:21:10 2001

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@

 	if (c == '\007' || c == '\t' || c == '\r' || c == '\n' ||

 	    (!iso8859x_iscntrl(c) && (isprint(c) || isspace(c))))

 		ret = putc(c, fp);

-	else if ((c & 0x80) || !isprint(c^0x40))

-		ret = fprintf(fp, "\\%3o", (unsigned char) c);

+	else if ((c & 0x80) || iso8859x_iscntrl(c^0x40) || !isprint(c^0x40))

+		ret = fprintf(fp, "\\%3o", (unsigned char) c) > 0 ? 0 : EOF;

 	else {

 		ret = putc('^', fp);

 		if (ret != EOF)

diff -Naur util-linux-2.11a.orig/misc-utils/write.c util-linux-2.11a/misc-utils/write.c

--- util-linux-2.11a.orig/misc-utils/write.c	Mon Mar  5 00:42:15 2001

+++ util-linux-2.11a/misc-utils/write.c	Thu May 17 12:21:10 2001

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@

  */

 #include <stdio.h>

+#include <stdlib.h>

 #include <unistd.h>

 #include <utmp.h>

 #include <errno.h>

@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@

 #include <stdlib.h>

 #include <locale.h>

 #include <signal.h>

+#include <limits.h>

 #include <sys/param.h>

 #include <sys/signal.h>

 #include <sys/stat.h>

@@ -67,7 +69,7 @@

 #include "nls.h"

 void search_utmp(char *, char *, char *, uid_t);

-void do_write(char *, char *, uid_t);

+void do_write(char *, char *, char *, uid_t);

 void wr_fputs(char *);

 static void done(int);

 int term_chk(char *, int *, time_t *, int);

@@ -80,9 +82,13 @@

 	int msgsok, myttyfd;

 	char tty[MAXPATHLEN], *mytty;

-	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

+	unsetenv("TZ");

+

+	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");

+#if 0

 	bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);

 	textdomain(PACKAGE);

+#endif

 	/* check that sender has write enabled */

 	if (isatty(fileno(stdin)))

@@ -121,7 +127,7 @@

 	switch (argc) {

 	case 2:

 		search_utmp(argv[1], tty, mytty, myuid);

-		do_write(tty, mytty, myuid);

+		do_write(argv[1], tty, mytty, myuid);

 		break;

 	case 3:

 		if (!strncmp(argv[2], "/dev/", 5))

@@ -140,7 +146,7 @@

 			    argv[1], argv[2]);

 			exit(1);

 		}

-		do_write(argv[2], mytty, myuid);

+		do_write(argv[1], argv[2], mytty, myuid);

 		break;

 	default:

 		(void)fprintf(stderr, _("usage: write user [tty]\n"));

@@ -276,20 +282,34 @@

 /*

  * do_write - actually make the connection

  */

-void do_write(char *tty, char *mytty, uid_t myuid) {

-	char *login, *pwuid, *nows;

+void do_write(char *user, char *tty, char *mytty, uid_t myuid) {

+	char *login, *pwuid, *nows, *prompt, *prefix;

 	struct passwd *pwd;

 	time_t now;

-	char path[MAXPATHLEN], host[MAXHOSTNAMELEN], line[512];

+	char path[MAXPATHLEN], host[MAXHOSTNAMELEN], line[BUFSIZ + 1];

 	/* Determine our login name(s) before the we reopen() stdout */

 	if ((pwd = getpwuid(myuid)) != NULL)

 		pwuid = pwd->pw_name;

-	else

-		pwuid = "???";

+	else {

+		perror("getpwuid");

+		pwuid = alloca(4 + sizeof(myuid) * CHAR_BIT / 3 + 1 + 1);

+		if (!pwuid) exit(1);

+		sprintf(pwuid, "UID %u", myuid);

+	}

 	if ((login = getlogin()) == NULL)

 		login = pwuid;

+	if (isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {

+		prompt = alloca(strlen(user) + 2 + 1);

+		if (!prompt) exit(1);

+		sprintf(prompt, "%s> ", user);

+	} else

+		prompt = "";

+	prefix = alloca(strlen(login) + 3 + 1);

+	if (!prefix) exit(1);

+	sprintf(prefix, "<%s> ", login);

+

 	if (strlen(tty) + 6 > sizeof(path))

 		exit(1);

 	(void)sprintf(path, "/dev/%s", tty);

@@ -317,8 +337,16 @@

 			     login, host, mytty, nows + 11);

 	printf("\r\n");

-	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL)

+	fprintf(stderr, "%s", prompt);

+	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL) {

+		wr_fputs(prefix);

 		wr_fputs(line);

+		if (!strchr(line, '\n')) {

+			wr_fputs("\n");

+			fputc('\n', stderr);

+		}

+		fprintf(stderr, "%s", prompt);

+	}

 }

 /*

@@ -327,6 +355,7 @@

 static void

 done(int dummy) {

 	(void)printf("EOF\r\n");

+	if (isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) fputc('\n', stderr);

 	exit(0);

 }