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- From: msb@cats.ucsc.edu (Maurice S. Barnum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Talk VMS to UNIX ?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 00:46:33 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- Message-ID: <1e6r19INNh11@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- References: <1992Nov11.112459.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <1e5ku9INN1jt@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:
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- >mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
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- >>Greetings:
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- >>I'm running VMS on my VAX and am trying to 'TALK' to another user via the
- >>NET who is running some kind of UNIX on a
- >>Sun. I type 'talk username@host.name.edu'..
- >>The system comes back and says "Checking for an invitation on callers machine"
- >>What does this mean??
- >>thanks ahead of time
- >>mccalld@sonoma.edu
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- [ ... stuff from craig@ec deleted ... ]
- >Sun due to a tight workload failed to get their version of talk to talk to
- >the old and the new so consequently to maintain similarity across machines
- >failed to produce a 4.3 compatible version.
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- >All you need to know is that talk is a thing from satan, misbehaves in
- >every concievable way and is just waiing to be replaced by something a
- >little more sane. Run an IRC and talk to each other that way. It is multi
- >user and uses far more standardised protocols.
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- Since some people happen to like talk a lot better than IRC for most
- things, there's another solution: grab the "ytalk" source (check archie)
- and compile that. Ytalk handles either talk daemon just fine, and
- compiles fine on machines running SunOS and Ultrix.
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- Maurice S. Barnum
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