From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 11:30:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA15511 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15506 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA03008; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:30:56 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:30:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Nate Williams cc: Narvi , Nate Williams , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Talk problems btw. FreeBSD & Sun In-Reply-To: <199606181632.KAA02174@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > [ Talk problems Sun <-> FreeBSD ] > > > > 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. > > > > Now that's awfull!!! Weren't the things meant to be consistent in the use > > of byte order? > > They were once it was figured out, but Sun never shipped the new > versions since it's *NOT* backwards compatible with the old version. :( > > > Perhaps there is a way of getting that /usr/old/talk? > > I'm not sure, but ytalk *might* be able to talk to the Suns. Someone > with more experience in that matter may be able to verify that. > Download ytalk and check the docs. ytalk does work only if you sit in ytalk and wait for them to respond or else they can't get back to you later... Vince GaiaNet System Administration