Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!rvdp From: rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1 talk Message-ID: <9592@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 8 Apr 91 17:11:13 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Lines: 16 vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) writes: >Apologies if this is an FAQ, or doesn't belong in this newsgroup, but what did >Sun do to talk in recent versions of SunOS? It seems totally incompatible with Nothing, that's the problem :-) >the Berkeley version. Does anyone have specs (or, better yet, source) for the >new protocol? SunOS still uses the 'old talk' (port 517). Berkeley now uses 'ntalk' (port 518). They won't talk to each other. You may want to install talkd which listens on port 517 and ntalkd which listens on port 518. You too have to install both talk and ntalk in your bin-directory. -- Ronald van der Pol