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From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br>
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Subject: Re: talk and talkd
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:55:09 -0200 (EDT)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mgessner@aristar.com
In-Reply-To: <199612130915.KAA17346@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 13, 96 10:15:42 am"
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#define quoting(J Wunsch)
// As Warner Losh wrote:
// 
// > : I think you need to provide more data.  talk is fairly fragile, but
// > : nevertheless works (apparently) for most of us out of the box.
// > 
// > There are also multiple talk protocols that are used by talk.  And the
// > one that Sun uses is not compatible with anybody :-(
// 
// ytalk is supposed to speak the Sun protocol as well (including the
// required byte order changes Sun was so proud to forget).

ytalk is X, right ?

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 ?

// 
// -- 
// cheers, J"org
// 
// joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
// Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
// 


					Jonny

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