Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: talk, beeps (was Re: (none)) Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 89 19:29:40 GMT References: <8912131434.AA19336@crdgw1.ge.com> Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 18 In-reply-to: JARMOLOWSKI@esdsdf.dnet.ge.COM's message of 13 Dec 89 14:26:00 GMT In article <8912131434.AA19336@crdgw1.ge.com> JARMOLOWSKI@esdsdf.dnet.ge.COM writes: If not, can anyone tell me where I can find the protocol used by the talk deamon so that I can write my own? The protocol isn't documented - "Use the Source, Luke!" See uunet.uu.net:bsd-sources/include/protocols/talkd.h and bsd-sources/src/etc/talkd.tar.Z. I generally keep my console window iconified and often fail to notice when someone wants to talk to me. There are already too many applications that beep at me besides "talk". Hmmm, perhaps we need an X protocol extension for stereo workstation speakers? Or for quadrophonic, so we could locate the beep in the plane of the window? Or maybe DTMF (i.e. Touch-Tone(tm)) encodings, controllable from the resource database? (only .5 :-)