Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:38:38 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, loodvrij@gridpoint.com Subject: Re: Patch to talkd Message-ID: <23407.827692718@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Mar 1996 08:31:01 PST." <199603241631.IAA12904@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> That's why you do a 'w' first and explicitly give the tty. I certainly > hope the patch still allows that... It does - this just changes the selection of a default when such a tty _isn't_ given. Honestly, I don't understand all the contraversy over this patch - it's a far better algorithm than simply grabbing the first tty, regardless of how useful a place to reach the person it actually is. Jordan
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