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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: talk
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Date: 26 Jan 89 17:24:53 GMT
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Maybe this is old news, but the binaries for talk and talkd that come with
the .8 release hang the system.  I found some source destined for suns,
compiled it with only minor problems (including the fact that getlogin()
doesn't work on Terminal windows), and it works nicely.  The virgin 4.3
sources hang the machine as well; maybe it's a byteorder problem, but
don't quote me.

The moral of the story is to remove /etc/talk and /etc/talkd RIGHT NOW
unless you want your machine to hang...

Steve
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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