Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:22:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to talkd Message-ID: <199603251722.KAA12220@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <peter.827707406@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 24, 96 10:43:26 pm
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> >The "type w and specify a tty" soloution only works if the user is local > >and or if finger (better than w for this) is enabled. > > You can explicitly request a remote tty name when you are using ytalk > (which is in ports somewhere) The reason it only works locally is that you can't identify the tty the person is on most of the time when you are not a local user as well. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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