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- From: andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: CHECKING FOR INVITATION ON CALLER'S MACHINE ??
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 05:32:19 GMT
- Organization: The University of Adelaide
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- Peter Blaudeck (blk@physik.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote:
- + What does this message mean ?
- + I use ULTRIX 4.2a and cannot "talk" to any other computer.
- + All other network services are working well.
-
- It means (if you really didn't get any responce), that you're
- trying to talk to a machine running SunOS which is still using the old
- byte-order dependant version of talk, not the modern (BSD 4.3) version
- that everyone else uses. The fix is to install ntalk on the Sun - using
- otalk on the DEC won't help as you then have two machines speaking a
- byte order dependant protocol of different byte sexes.
-
- Andrew.
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