"talk" under Ultrix 3.1

[Dirk Grunwald]

>>>>> On 9 Mar 90 04:23:23 GMT, yhsieh at cadence.cadence.com (Tommy Hsieh) said:


TH> I have a question about talk program of DECStation 3100 running Ultrix 3.1. 
TH> When I tried to used talk to talk to somebody on the same system I got an 
TH> error message -- talk : ntalk/udp: service is not registered.
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I bet you're using Yellow Pages - if so, your YP master holds the
legit copy of /etc/services & your local copy isn't consulted.
Allegedly, in 4.0, this can be overridden.


Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald at foobar.colorado.edu)
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