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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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