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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!EU.net!sunic!columba.udac.uu.se!Krille.Update.UU.SE!Krille.Update.UU.SE!not-for-mail From: bqt@Krille.Update.UU.SE (Johnny Billquist) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Talk Daemon BSD/SunOS conflict Date: 6 Mar 1994 12:37:44 +0100 Organization: Update Computer Club Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2lcfam$jkf@Krille.Update.UU.SE> References: <2lb3u0$mmo@mary.iia.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: krille.update.uu.se In <2lb3u0$mmo@mary.iia.org> amoreno@iia.org (Andre S. Moreno) writes: >This may be a common problem, but since I don't have a clue where to >look for a particular FAQ list that would answer it, here goes. >I am on a Sun OS machine, and the person I wish to talk with is on a >BSD 4.3 system, and the talk daemons don't want to interface with each >other at all. All I get is a message: >[Checking for invitation on caller's machine] >and than nothing happens. Please help me out, is there a source file I >should get and compile on the Sun OS machine that recognizes BSD talk? Yes. I don't know where the new talk can be fetched, but the problem is that Sun continues to ship SunOS with the old talk, which don't work between machines with different byte order. All other versions of Unix I've seen have changed to the new talk, which works across different architectures. When will Sun change??? The old and new talk can't communicate with each other. Also not that the new talk have a new port number assigned to it. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus CS student at Uppsala University || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol