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- 1/14/96
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- Copyright Mikhail Fridberg 1994.
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- This is Telnet-based Talk server/client, which can be used as a substitute for
- people who don't have talk applications. I wrote it to be able to talk to my
- girlfriend, who was in Israel at the time, and her Unix machine (I know, I know,
- it's hard to belive but it's true) could not connect to either my Mac or VAX
- computers using talk protocol. So I spent few days and made this monster. All it
- does is listens on telnet port for incoming connections (you can change port
- number in headers) and, when connection recieved, sends back greeting string
- entered in the panel, beeps many times and opens 2 windows - one to talk and one
- to listen. Any computer that has telnet client will be able to connect. Once you
- are connected, you can type your text in typing window and it'll be sent to the
- client. This program uses Communication Toolbox and VT100 tool to create windows. It
- REQUIRES to have VT102 tool present. It DOES NOT CHECK for Communication Toolbox, or
- any communication tools present. In fact, it does very little checking. I do not
- reccomend using it without going throug source code and including sufficient error
- checking routines. It also does not clean up very well after itself on quit,
- so you'll have to work with it and fix it.
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- It also uses my BSD Socket library for TCP communications. It implements very limited
- number of calls. It's based on John Norstad's NewsWatcher source code.
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- I was using finger source code by Steve Falkenburg from Apple DTS. I had modified his
- code as was nessesary for my purposes.
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- LEGAL STUFF:
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- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS AND I DISCLIME ANY RESPONCIBILITY FOR IT. IN NO
- EVENT WILL I BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, DIRECT AND INDIRECT. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY
- NO WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE, IMPLIED AND OTHERWISE. YOU CAN USE IT ON YOUR OWN
- RISK.
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- I had it written about 2 years ago, and hadn't used it since. I don't remember all
- detailes of it's operations, but will do my best trying to help anyone who has
- questions about it. If you have any questions, you can contact me at:
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- <mailto:fridberg@pfc.mit.edu>
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- Credits:
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- Thanks to Steve Falkenburg, John Norstad, and Apple Computer.
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