From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 09:17:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA07078 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA07067 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00172 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA02044; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:12:39 -0600 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:12:39 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199606181612.KAA02044@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Narvi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Talk problems btw. FreeBSD & Sun In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am having problems with talk between a FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE machine > and a Sun4M running SunOS 5.5 (or so the uname reports). The problem is - > it is not possible to either talk from FreeBSD to the sun (using talk > user@sun.machine) or from the Sun to FreeBSD (using talk > user@freebsd.machine). That's because Sun uses a *very* old (6-7 years) version of talk that doesn't work over machines that use different byte orders, sucn as Sun's and PC's. The *ONLY* machines that Sun's will 'talk' to are other suns. You could install a newer talk on the Sun's if it's really important. Nate