NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/bugs/misc/160

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From: [e-mail] (Jay Vassos-Libove)
Subject: Re: "talk" bugs on the "uhunix" system
In-Reply-To: [e-mail]'s message of Sun, 6 Sep 1992 09:44:37 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Atlanta Customer Support Center
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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 14:19:12 GMT
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This is not a bug, but instead a version incompatibility. When UNIX
(the operating system itself, not any particular machine) moved from
Berkeley version 4.2 and version 4.3, the talk protocol changed, in
order to accomodate a newer protocol that could handle talking between
machines with different architectural byte-orderings.  What this comes
down to is that machines running a BSD 4.2 version of "talk" can not
talk to machines running the BSD 4.3 version of "talk".  Some newer
systems provide "otalk" to talk to older machines, or "ntalk" to talk
to newer ones. Try those, and also try reading the manuals and asking
locally for assistance, as some sites also provide their own changed
talk programs to meet this need.

Posting to the net before checking locally is not as effective.

Best wishes...
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Jay Vassos-Libove                  [e-mail]
Digital Equipment Corporation      decwrl!alf.dec.com!libove
Atlanta Customer Support Center    Opinions? They're mine, mine, all mine!
Alpharetta, Georgia                and D.E.C. Can't have 'em!