'talk' between 386i and other machines?

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From: anderson
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1989 17:06

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I don't seem to be able to get 'talk' to work between a 386i (OS 4.0.1)
and sun 3's and 4's (also 4.0.1). The 3's and 4's talk to each other, but
when the 386i tries to initiate a connection, it doesn't work. The initial
request is made and received, but as soon as the recipient responds, his
'talk' exits right away and the 386i keeps trying over and over again to
restart the conversation. The same thing happens regardless of which
machine initiates the connection. Can anyone tell me what's going on, and
what I might do about it?

Steve Anderson
Cognitive Science Center
The Johns Hopkins University
<anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu>
or <anderson@cs.jhu.edu>

[[ Are you surprised?  I'm not.  Most implementations of talk ignore the
"trivial" issue of machine versus network byte ordering.  --wnl ]]

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Subject: 'talk' between 386i and other machines?
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