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From: johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: when to talk(1) and when not to talk(1)
Summary: SysV also has those, stuff.
Keywords: talk conf write BSD SysV no
Message-ID: <1375@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 23:58:39 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.041239.16159@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <805@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnb@lakesys.UUCP (John C. Burant)
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
Organization: With people like this?
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In 805@wet.com, somebody writes:
>You've answered your own question.  Whatever you agree on is
>accepted etiquette.  Personally, I prefer talk-like programs
>to a barrage of write(1)s.

As for talk programs, you can also try 'conf'... perhaps your system doesn't
have it, umm, it's on uunet.uu.net (for ftp), and it floats on most bbs's 
(ick) that have UNIX file sections...  

>					-=EPS=-
>BTW, someone else asked abouut the "w" program--this is peculiar
>to BSD UNIX systems.  Sys V users might find the "whodo" program
>an acceptable substitute.  The talk referred to above is also a
>BSDism, although equivalents for other systems might be found in
>the comp.sources.unix archives.  Who knows, I might even post one
>(yes, I got the hint, thank you).
>

I have used a couple of SysV systems (including this system) that have the
'w' command... I've also used a BSD system with it.  (can't say about whodo).
The talk program isn't just for BSD systems, almost every system, including
SysV has it.  The only thing peculiar to BSD talk is talking to someone on
another system. (Although a sysV system CAN probably run that - but then
again, does it ever happen?)..

PS - If anyone knows of a talk that is non-BSD that doesn't have that really
annoying status bar in the middle (with time, and info, etc... just has a line
of ------------'s), please let me know.

-John
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