From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 12:15:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA18614 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18596 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA06759; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:14:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:14:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Narvi cc: Nate Williams , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Talk problems btw. FreeBSD & Sun In-Reply-To: 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, Narvi wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > [ Talk problems Sun <-> FreeBSD ] > > > > > > 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? > > > > They were once it was figured out, but Sun never shipped the new > > versions since it's *NOT* backwards compatible with the old version. :( > > > > > Perhaps there is a way of getting that /usr/old/talk? > > > > I'm not sure, but ytalk *might* be able to talk to the Suns. Someone > > with more experience in that matter may be able to verify that. > > Download ytalk and check the docs. > > > > Thanx, it did help - but unfortunately it goes only half the way. Ytalk > is able to connect to the Sun (I type talk on the FreeBSD machine -> > respond with talk: ... apears on the screen of the user logged into the > sun, but when she (or he - it changes nothing which user) responds, the > talk session just hangs on her/his part. > > So I still need a talk daemon capable of receiving "old" talk requests. > Any ideas whetever sources for the 4.2BSD compatible talk daemon might be > available? Or any work on the ytalk daemon mentioned in the docs? Before FreeBSD was out (Thanks to Jordan for telling me about it!), I used to run Linux and there was a guy at GNU i met through the gnu finger author that was developing a gnu talkd and I ran it that handled both port 517 and 518 talk requests and was able to output out of your soundcard too and it works on all unix platforms.... too bad I lost it and his address when FreeBSD 1.0 Gamma came out.... Maybe someone else knows... Vince System Administration/GaiaNet Corporation