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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject: Re: talk and talkd 
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:33:52 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199612122320.AAA13632@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch writes:
: As Matthew Gessner wrote:
: 
: >   Why won't talk(1) work out of the box?
: 
: I think you need to provide more data.  talk is fairly fragile, but
: nevertheless works (apparently) for most of us out of the box.

There are also multiple talk protocols that are used by talk.  And the
one that Sun uses is not compatible with anybody :-(

Warner