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From: broome@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Jonathan C. Broome)
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Subject: Re: vms PHONE ?
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 02:42:25 EST
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In article <886@ecsvax.UUCP> btt@ecsvax.UUCP (B. Todd Troost) writes:
>Does anyone have or know of a public domain version
>of the dec's PHONE program.

Assuming you want a *NIX version, I have a program that is similar to the
vms phone (I am told) that is currently in the "beta" test stage (ie, useable
but still has a few problems, also man page is pretty scant.)  It supports 
multiple (> 2) users, command execution within a window, and a few other 
tricks.  It runs under 4.[23] BSD, should run under 2.9/networking with 
minal changes, and even works reliably on machines other than a VAX (try 
that with "talk"!)  If anyone would like a copy, let me know, and I'll send one
a soon as it's ready (hopefully before Xmas) ...  Oh, and give me your vote
for a service port number (like in /etc/services), it'd be nice to standardize!


Jonathan C. Broome       University of California, Berkeley

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