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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!ix.netcom.com!netnews.com!netaxs.com!socko.cdnow.com!heller From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: talk Date: 15 May 1997 17:04:21 GMT Organization: CDnow - The World's Largest Online Music Store http://cdnow.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5lffml$3vp@netaxs.com> References: <E9zpAx.Esp@nonexistent.com> <5l7of4$5nk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5lcbci$rdd@graves.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com NNTP-Posting-Host: socko.cdnow.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40978 David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) wrote: : >nathan@senate.org (Nathan Dorfman) wrote: : >> For some reason, talk will not work. ntalkd is in my inetd.conf file, : >> but when I try to talk another user on my system, I get this message: : >> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] : Could it be an endian'ness problem ? I know some versions : of talk have problems. Our old MIPS machines can't talk to : our sparc stations, and give exactly the message you mention. "talkd" is different on many machines. Try running "ytalk" as it can speak to more machine types. Karl