From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 24 14:44:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA29110 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 14:44:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29100 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 14:44:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA19847 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 06:45:17 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-current@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: 24 Mar 96 22:43:26 GMT From: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: <199603241849.KAA27707@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, <199603241917.MAA10069@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Patch to talkd Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) writes: >> > 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. You can explicitly request a remote tty name when you are using ytalk (which is in ports somewhere) -Peter > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers.