talk program won't

[Nigel Holder "Marconi"]

In article <526 at ontenv.UUCP>, soley at ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
> A while ago somone posted to the net a talk(1) for system V that used
> named pipes which I dutifully stuffed away for future reference. 
> Unfortunately it seems I didn't stuff away the the header so I can't say for
> sure which group it was in. The only reference I have is the author's
> name, Nigel Holder.

  Well - I seem to remember something about unsigned and signed bytes
playing havoc with certain systems - the system talk was written on
only had one of the above.  Hope this helps 


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