Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:15:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: mgessner@aristar.com Subject: Re: talk and talkd Message-ID: <199612130915.KAA17346@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <E0vYNRh-0006ro-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Dec 12, 96 07:33:52 pm"
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As Warner Losh wrote: > : 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 :-( ytalk is supposed to speak the Sun protocol as well (including the required byte order changes Sun was so proud to forget). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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