🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi, I'm an emacs beginner, and I'm just learning about 
window-management and shell interaction.  I have
lisp-dir and have checked the database, but could
not find any reference to unix "talk" - is there any
way to run unix talk from emacs, short of using
terminal-emulation?  

Alternatively, can someone recommend a superior shell-
mode that can emulate vt100?  "dumb" doesn't let me
clear screen or anything.  If there is a good shell-
mode, I can run multiple windows of it and run talk
from there.

I think I'm using emacs 18.56, both from a modem and
from xterms.

Also, I seem to be getting errors from archie.el, version
2.0 - I have the startup lines in my emacs.local, but
when I ask archie to search for an exact match, it thinks
for an instant and then says "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
and nothing happens.  Can someone clue me in as to what
I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Curt
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