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From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: talk
Message-ID: <770.25cc8d2a@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 01:14:33 GMT
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In article <25c8b46f.14b9@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, sstanfie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (skot) writes:
> Help!
> 
> I need to get talk (talkd) running on the NeXTs.  It comes up with a cute
> message:
> You don't exist. Go away.
> 
> I remember someone awhile back posting on how to do this, but it seems
> that no one has ever gotten it to work.  I want to use it to
> talk between NeXT's and to other systems on the same net.

Just as a wild guess, it might have something to do with not finding your
name in the /etc/passwd file (if your system is running netinfo).  You might
have to modify the code so that it does get information from netinfo.

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