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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Patch to talkd
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
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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
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