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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: talk
Date: 15 May 1997 19:27:33 GMT
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dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) wrote:

> 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.

He talked about ntalkd, and this one has been cleaned off endianess
problems.

Sun is (IMHO) silly enough to still ship their systems with the old
talkd.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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