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- Date: 01 SEP 92 23:11:40 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: More TALK problems.
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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- > I have having a problem using TALK. I have a friend on a SUN 4/65
- > running UNIX (don't know what version, it is math.nmsu.edu). I have
- > tried both TALK and TALK/OLD. TALK doesn't get any response at all,
- > while TALK/OLD wouldn't work because "address family not supported."
- > Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on? Is there anything
- > that can be installed on the SUN or VMS to make talk work?
-
- TALK/OLD won't work between machines with a different byte
- order (eg, SUNs and VAXen).
-
- TALK (the UNIX name is called "ntalk") hasn't been supported by
- SUN yet. If you have access to BSD sources, you can compile it
- from them. There is no other way to talk between the VAXen and
- the SUNs unless SUN supports NTALK.
-
- Ken
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