Re: Dammit, I'm dumb. Why doesn't talk work?

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From: Christoph Badura
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:19

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In <lb9s1hINNfm4@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> dmr@medicated.Corp.Sun.COM (Daniel M. Rosenberg) writes:

>On some NeXT's, you type "talk," and it says,
>"Go away. You don't exist."

You have no entry in the utmp file for the tty/pty your using. Tell
your terminal emulator to write utmp entries.
-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

ISO? Nicht immer, aber immer M-vfter.

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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Dammit, I'm dumb. Why doesn't talk work?
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:19:59 GMT
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