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- This is a somewhat cleaned-up, debugged version of Britt Yennes
- <yenne@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> ytalk program. The primary advantages of
- it over the talk as shipped with the OS are:
-
- 1. It automatically works both with ntalk (the talk & talkd which come
- with most UN*Xes including the NeXTs these days) and otalk (only used
- by some very conservative UN*X versions like SunOS) as well as ytalk.
-
- 2. There is a conferencing mode in which a large number of users can
- talk together. This feature is somewhat limited if not all
- participants use ytalk.
-
- 3. A number of minor improvements like the ability to save
- conversations, do word wrapping a.s.o.
-
- There are still two problems:
-
- 1. Ytalk used to trigger a bug in the NS 2.x kernel which invariably
- caused kernel panics on exit. However it appears this bug has been
- fixed under 3.0 and I've not had a single ytalk related panic since
- upgrading. So if you want to try ytalk under NS 2.x be sure all your
- data is saved and let me know what happens.
-
- 2. There is no man page. Fortunately ytalk is easy to use and
- whatever a user needs to know can be found in the original README
- file.
-
- Personally, I put 'alias talk=ytalk' in my ~/.zshrc a while ago and
- never regretted it.
-
- If you have any questions or problems feel free to email me as well as
- the original author.
-
- Carl Edman
- cedman@princeton.edu
-