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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: inetd /usr/old/talkd ?
Date: 26 Mar 94 03:31:11 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp.
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wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson) writes:

>The subject shows what I get in system logs. It can't find /usr/old/talkd...

BSD now uses ntalk, which is pretty much the same as talk but is
portable between machines. You'll find ntalkd in /usr/libexec/ntalkd.

You'd be best to try and upgrade the other system (the one that wants
talkd) to the newer version, if you can.

cjs
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