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Article #12331Re: 'talk' between 386i and other machines
From: Pat Lashley
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 03:08
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 03:08
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anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu writes:
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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
[Description of symptoms deleted]
>[[ Are you surprised? I'm not. Most implementations of talk ignore the
>"trivial" issue of machine versus network byte ordering. --wnl ]]
I have no trouble initiating a talk from my 386i (OS 4.0.1) to any of
our Sun3s (OS 3.5), but when I try to talk to our Sun3E (OS 4.0) I get
the symptoms you describe. At least this narrows the field of search...
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