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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: talk
Message-ID: <288@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 1 Feb 90 23:49:49 GMT
References: <25c8b46f.14b9@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <25c8b46f.14b9@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
	sstanfie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (skot) writes:
>I need to get talk (talkd) running on the NeXTs.  It comes up with a cute
>message:
>You don't exist. Go away.

Probably "your fault" -- it works fine here.  Best guesses:

	1) you tried running talk under script
	2) some idiot removed Terminal's set-uid bit

					-=EPS=-
-- 
Find a nearby mirror, see if you have a reflection.  I won't
discount the possibility that you actually don't exist, in which
case this too is an illusion; I'm not really replying to you.