From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 16 17:11:15 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA21618 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA21613 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:11:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.3/8.7.3) id XAA02226; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 23:10:07 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199612170110.XAA02226@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: talk and talkd To: jamie@inna.net (Jamie Bowden) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 23:10:07 -0200 (EDT) Cc: imp@village.org, jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mgessner@aristar.com In-Reply-To: from Jamie Bowden at "Dec 16, 96 07:36:05 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Jamie Bowden) // 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. Yup, but my problem is when my users want to talk with someone on a Sun system which does not have such a good manager. :) Since we can't change all Sun system in world, let's try to make our system at least able to talk with them. I've not yet taken a look at ytalk, but if the other side needs to use ytalk also, does not solve my problem. // // Jamie Bowden // // Network Administrator, TBI Ltd. // Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro