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Date:      Sat, 7 Feb 1998 08:56:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.creative.net.au>
Cc:        rssh@grad.kiev.ua, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: byte ordering and talk?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980207085318.7683A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980207213453.11050B-100000@obiwan.creative.net.au>

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On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> 
> > (One little problem --- FreeBSD talk not work with machines with another
> > byte-order
> >  in word, so if you need talk with Sun, better get ytalk from ports)
> > 
> 
> Huh?
> Is this a protocol-specific thing with talk protocol or just our talk
> implementation?
> 

No, the byte order is fixed in the specification (ntohs, nothl anyone).
the problem that you are refferning to is either of 2 problems:

1: slightly different struct sockaddr_in structres (some have a 'lenght'
field (AIX), others do not (FreeBSD)

2: ntalk/talk  there are 2 differnt talk protocols, everyone uses one
(can't remember), sun uses the other.  (check /etc/inetd.conf and
/etc/services, they bind to different ports.)

--
David Cross
UNIX Systems Administrator
GE Corporate R&D




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