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- From: andy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy Poling)
- Subject: Re: looking for old "talk" (BSD 4.2) for IRIX4.0.5
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.133823.5012@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
- Summary: actually alot worse than that
- Keywords: talk, BSD
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Aug30.203414.9048@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> <p89kt7k@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:38:23 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <p89kt7k@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <1992Aug30.203414.9048@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> doctor@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Terry Fong) writes:
- [...]
- >| I've already tried to build the old talk from sources on
- >| gatekeeper.dec.com (/pub/bsd-sources/ucb/talk), but I've been unable
- >| to get it to compile under IRIX 4.0.5 (problems with BSD signals and
- >| all).
- >
- >See 'man signal'; basicly you need to compile with -D_BSD_COMPAT or
- >-D_BSD_SIGNALS to get the bsd signal behavior.
-
- I'm afraid it's alot worse than that. If memory serves, you need to replace
- all of the crufty BSD sgtty stuff with termio stuff. Talk about tedium. The
- BSD manual on one side, the SysV manual on the other...
-
- I don't think the old talk is worth the trouble.
-
- -Andy
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