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From: Nessus <jandrese@vt.edu>
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To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br>
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Subject: Re: talk and talkd
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:

=)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 ?
=)
ytalk -x to run ytalk in text mode.  Or add the line:
turn X off 
in your .ytalkrc to make it command line
I use ytalk whenever I can, because many stupid terminals (like the ones I
have to use on Macs and NT machines in the lab) tend to put a lot of ^H's
up on the screen, while ytalk doesn't.  Ytalk also has the shell option,
which I find very usefull in illustrating points.  
The only problem is that talk and ytalk don't talk to each other, and
whenver you ring someone with ytalk, it says'
...
type talk jandrese@jandrese.async.vt.edu to respond...
where they should type ytalk instead.

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