From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 09:35:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08089 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08080 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00418 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA07821; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:34:44 +0300 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:34:44 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Nate Williams cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Talk problems btw. FreeBSD & Sun In-Reply-To: <199606181612.KAA02044@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: > > I am having problems with talk between a FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE machine > > and a Sun4M running SunOS 5.5 (or so the uname reports). The problem is - > > it is not possible to either talk from FreeBSD to the sun (using talk > > user@sun.machine) or from the Sun to FreeBSD (using talk > > user@freebsd.machine). > > 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? > > You could install a newer talk on the Sun's if it's really important. I can't do anything on the Sun - I don't even have an account on it, but it's my users who complain... Perhaps there is a way of getting that /usr/old/talk? Sander > > Nate >