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Article #381Re: Talk from DECstation 5000 to Sun
From: Mike Iglesias
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:48
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:48
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In article <1992Apr13.172111.3703@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> johannes@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Johannes Viegener) writes: >I have a problem with talk from a DECstation 5000 to a Sun >I get the following messages when using talk or otalk: > > Checking for invitation on caller's machine --> never returns > > invalid protocol (or something similar. Sorry I can't test at the moment) > >Anyone had the same problems? Sun uses an old, broken talk that doesn't work correctly when used between big-endian and little-endian machines. Your best bet is to get a copy of the 4.3bsd talk and talkd and install them on your Sun. That's what we did. Mike Iglesias Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu University of California, Irvine BITNET: iglesias@uci Office of Academic Computing uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias Distributed Computing Support phone: (714) 856-6926
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!noiro.oac.uci.edu!draco.acs.uci.edu!iglesias From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Talk from DECstation 5000 to Sun Message-ID: <29EA39D3.1750@noiro.acs.uci.edu> Date: 14 Apr 92 01:48:03 GMT References: <1992Apr13.172111.3703@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: draco.acs.uci.edu