Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!sharkey!umich!samsung!spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ucbvax!dog.ee.lbl.gov!lbl.gov!jnmoyne Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: VMS TALKING again.... (and DECnet stuff) Message-ID: <11979@dog.ee.lbl.gov> From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) Date: 11 Apr 91 03:16:41 GMT References: <9104100428.AA13489@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> <14461@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory X-Local-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 20:16:41 PDT Lines: 30 In article <14461@helios.TAMU.EDU> dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes: > PHONE and Talk are not compatible, period. Right ! Furthermore I would say just forget it. If you want to use talk with your friend, I can guess that he's not close to you (geographically, of course (-:). That means you'll have to go thru WANs for that. Your machine is a UNIX machine, and I bet it's on the Internet. He's machine is a VAX running VMS he's very likely to be on a separate DECnet WAN, and that means no connection at all .. just mail. If your friend's VAX is running Multinet (i.e. when he types 'ftp' he doesn't get an error message), he may be on the internet, and you might be able to use talk. If not, I don't think installing Multinet would help (especially asking the sys manager for that, he's very likely to smile and ask: what for ?) As for implementations of DECnet, you can have DECnet on Ultrix of course, but also on PCs, on Macs, and on ..... (tsss tsss tsss (-:) JNM PS: and don't ask, there's no talk in DECnet phase V either ! (-: --- #include JNM: jnmoyne@lbl.gov