Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:17:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, paul@netcraft.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, loodvrij@gridpoint.com Subject: Re: Patch to talkd Message-ID: <199603241917.MAA10069@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603241849.KAA27707@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 24, 96 10:49:20 am
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> > If I don't like talk requests, I can always mesg n in my elm window, > > after all! :) > > As a side effect of this patch what happens to a talk request if your > least idle xterm has mesg n turned on? Does the talk fall back to > another xterm, or do you get an error now? Rod, you read my mind. I would prefer a fallback in order of increasing idle time, then the patch would be perfect. 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. 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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