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From: kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers)
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Subject: Re: TALKing to another user
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.161028.25932@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 6 Mar 91 16:10:28 GMT
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In article <1991Mar6.050511.13981@meteor.wisc.edu> moonunit@meteor.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz) writes:
>
>I've been trying to use talk to talk to someone on another system,
>but something's wrong.  When I type "talk user@address", I get the
>standard "[No connection yet]", but then it shows "[Checking for 
>invitation on caller's machine]" and hangs there ad infinitum.
>She has set her messages off.  I've even tried "talk user@address tty".

That depends on the type of machines that are involved.  There are two
types of talk protocals that are not compatible.  For instance,
Ultrix and SunOS cannot 'talk' to each other.  Unfortunately, talk
does not realize that an incompatability exists and it just keeps
trying.  

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