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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:36:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
cc: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br>,
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Subject: Re: talk and talkd 
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <199612161855.QAA26056@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Joao Carlos Mendes Luis writes:
> : I'd like to use something text-oriented.  The default inetd.conf mentions
> : a /usr/old/talkd, but I could not find any reference about it.  Does it
> : really exists ?

> even if you had old/talkd (which may be on one of the Lite CDs), it
> wouldn't help you talk to suns.  Unless your compiler pads things
> exactly the same way as the sun compiler, it won't work :-(.

Fortunately, most suns have standard ntalkd put on them by their admins.  
At least, all the ones I admin'd ended up with it on them.  Most of the 
other sun admins I know did/do the same.

Jamie Bowden

Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.