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From: rgrodrig@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: "xtalk"-type program desired
Summary: xmessage
Keywords: xmessage
Message-ID: <1303@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 03:15:12 GMT
References: <2817@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <6520015@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rgrodrig@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez)
Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, San Francisco, Ca.
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In article <6520015@hpihoah.HP.COM> bruce@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bruce LaVigne) writes:
>> Does anybody out there have an "xtalk" type program? 
>> It sure is a pain when "talk" doesn't know which xterm to connect to.
>And it would connect to berlin:0, or berlin:1, and put up a xterm type window
>with the normal talk screen on the guys workstation!  I realize we will have
>

Well, this may not do exactly what talk does, but there is an application
in the contrib portion of the X sources called "xmessage".  I haven't
used it much, but I tried it out once, and was able to pop up a window
on another users display asking if he was ready to go to lunch.  He saw
my question, and two buttons labeled "yes" and "no".  Once he clicked on
"yes", yes was printed on my terminal and xmessage exited.

This may not do what talk does, but it seems like it might be a good place
to start.

Robert