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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: TALKing to another user
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.015628.28140@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 01:56:28 GMT
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In article <1991Mar6.161028.25932@linus.mitre.org>, kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) writes:
|> 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.  

  Elaborating a little bit: Some machines have both versions of talk
installed.  If "talk" doesn't work for you, try "ntalk", "otalk", "talk.old"
and "talk.new" if any of them are available.

  If none of them are available and work, then you lose.

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