Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:5966 comp.protocols.misc:443 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5887 comp.bugs.4bsd:1173 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!andrew From: andrew@stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Macpherson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.protocols.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: 'Talk' command and protocol (useable replacement) Summary: Viable Alternative Message-ID: <924@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 7 Jan 89 15:34:08 GMT References: <1468@cseg.uucp> <786@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Andrew Macpherson" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 18 In article <786@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> eckert@faui10.UUCP (Toerless Eckert) writes: | I have previosly posted a request for a replacement for talk, but that | was only to comp.sources.wanted. Maybe that was the wrong audience. | Does someone on this lists knows if there is a suitable replacement for | talk, that does not suffer from the above mentioned problems ? Look out for "Phone" which has a nicer user interface, and gets round your complaints. let's see: Ah yes, written by: J. Broome UCB 1985. I think I got it from the news network, but there must be somewhere nearer you to get it. -- Andrew Macpherson PSI%234237100122::andrew andrew@stl.stc.co.uk - or - ...!mcvax!ukc!stl!andrew "It is always a great mistake to treat the individual on the chance that he may become a crowd" -- Mr Justice Codd: (A.P.Herbert)