From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 13 04:20:11 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA12850 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:20:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id EAA12842 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA03470; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:19:03 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21304; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:48:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA17346; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:15:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612130915.KAA17346@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: talk and talkd To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:15:42 +0100 (MET) Cc: mgessner@aristar.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Dec 12, 96 07:33:52 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)