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libove@libove.alf.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:

>This is not a bug, but instead a version incompatibility. When UNIX
>(the operating system itself, not any particular machine) moved from
>Berkeley version 4.2 and version 4.3, the talk protocol changed, in
>order to accomodate a newer protocol that could handle talking between
>machines with different architectural byte-orderings.  What this comes
>down to is that machines running a BSD 4.2 version of "talk" can not
>talk to machines running the BSD 4.3 version of "talk".  Some newer
>systems provide "otalk" to talk to older machines, or "ntalk" to talk
>to newer ones. Try those, and also try reading the manuals and asking
>locally for assistance, as some sites also provide their own changed
>talk programs to meet this need. 

If anyone is interested, talk for the Macintosh by Peter N Lewis will talk
to any machine under (and including) the sun.  The only rumoured failure
was talking to a mac running aux.  Sad hey.

I am sure he would be willing to mail anyone a copy of the source code or
you can ftp it from an info-mac archive
/info-mac/source/pascal/talk-106.hqx

Do the world a favour and port the internal bit that connects to any
machine.

Craig
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