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From: ber@enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Talk and "protocol not supported"
Message-ID: <1442@enea.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 17:24:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: enea.1442
Posted: Fri Aug 22 17:24:52 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Aug-86 21:36:50 EDT
References: <3053@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6312@sun.uucp> <3033@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: ber@enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen)
Organization: Enea Data, Sweden
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In article <3033@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <6312@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Barry's right, [talk] is a crock.
>
>I hate to insult programs---it feels as though I am insulting the
>programmer, by impliciation---but Barry and Guy are right.
>
>>...  The only way that can fail is if you
>>haven't configured in Internet protocol support, ...

Sometimes that "make depend" does not work out correct after just adding new
options. I suggest you do a "config XXX" and "make depend" into a clean
directory and generate a new vmunix from scratch before you try to understand
how talk/talkd works.

-- 
Bjorn Eriksen
ENEA DATA Sweden

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