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From: Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com>
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Subject: Re: talk
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 01:35:02AM -0900, Steve Howe wrote:
> > 
> > i don't know if the talk program is wrong,
> > or the talk manpage, or me.
> > 
> > according to the manpage, i should be able to say
> > 
> > $ talk username
> > 
> > to talk to anyone one the same machine.
> > but in practice, this doesn't work for me,
> > i have to say
> > 
> > $ talk username@localhost
> > 
> > for things to work.  who's right, and who's wrong?
> > 
> > 2.2.7 ...
> 
> Both talk and its manpage are right, and you are wrong ;-)
> What does `talk username' tell you?
> What is your hostname (according to /bin/hostname)?

i'm sorry, i don't understand.
the man page says:

talk person [ttyname]

and it says that person is just the login name,
and that you only have to use the longer forms,
ie - user@host, host!user, host:user ...
if the person is on another host.

but i'm talking about users on the same host.
the manpage does say that you should reply
with "talk your_name@your_machine" ...


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