Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!skl
From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Write AND talk
Summary: The System V talk posted to alt.sources works on Xenix.
Keywords: write, talk, SysV, Xenix
Message-ID: <21@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 07:39:52 GMT
References: <683@mcorp.UUCP>
Reply-To: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Organization: Balliffe International, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <683@mcorp.UUCP>, robcoo@mcorp.UUCP (Robin D. Coolidge) wrote:
>So I post question asking if there is a utility to replace write,
>and I get back 50 replies that say "talk(1)".  ...
>but it seems that none of my machines has talk, (and, since some people
>were not sure, there is no talk in xenix that I can find).

In mid-August, Jim Mattson <mattson@beowulf.ucsd.edu> of UCSD EE/CS
posted to alt.sources a System V talk program he wrote that works
like Berkeley talk(1).  This program also works on SCO Xenix.  It
is limited to intra-machine talk, but it is small and easy to install.

...Sam
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Samuel Lam     <skl@wimsey.bc.ca> or {uunet,ubc-cs}!wimsey.bc.ca!skl