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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: /usr/ucb/talk broken?
Keywords: talk
Message-ID: <1575@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 91 00:17:58 GMT
Organization: UTexas CS Dept, Austin, Texas
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Am I the only one having difficulties getting /usr/ucb/talk to connect
to talk programs running on machines other than NeXTs (such as Sparc's
and Sun3's)?  So far, the only machine I've been able to get the talk
running on a NeXT to connect to is an RS/6000 running AIX.  When
I try talking to a Sparc the talk hangs at this message:

[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

Are sources available for talk?  I've looked in the USENET archives
but only see versions for System V.

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Information from the Sparc:

SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC) #1: Thu Oct 11 10:25:14 PDT 1990
@(#)talk.c 1.6 88/08/03 SMI (from: strings /usr/ucb/talk)
@(#)in.talkd.c 1.8 89/06/22 SMI (from: strings /usr/etc/in.talkd)

Information from the NeXT:

NeXT Extended Release 2.0
5.2 (Berkeley) 3/13/86 (from: strings /usr/ucb/talk)
5.4 (Berkeley) 3/13/86 (from: strings /usr/etc/talkd)
-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas