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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa.uwa.edu.au!craig
- From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
- Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
- Subject: Re: "talk" bugs on the "uhunix" system
- Date: 7 Sep 1992 09:15:25 GMT
- Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
- Lines: 31
- Message-ID: <18f6jdINN2vn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- References: <1992Sep6.094437.11877@news.Hawaii.Edu> <LIBOVE.92Sep6091912@libove.alf.dec.com>
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- libove@libove.alf.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- If anyone is interested, talk for the Macintosh by Peter N Lewis will talk
- to any machine under (and including) the sun. The only rumoured failure
- was talking to a mac running aux. Sad hey.
-
- I am sure he would be willing to mail anyone a copy of the source code or
- you can ftp it from an info-mac archive
- /info-mac/source/pascal/talk-106.hqx
-
- Do the world a favour and port the internal bit that connects to any
- machine.
-
- Craig
- --
- Craig Richmond. Computer Officer - Dept of Economics (morning) 380 3860
- University of Western Australia Dept of Education (afternoon)
- craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au Dvorak Keyboards RULE!
- "Only users are allowed to make messes on their computers" I.M.VI
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