'talk' between 386i and other machines

[Pat Lashley]

anderson at sapir.cog.jhu.edu writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 208, message 15 of 22
>
>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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