SunOS 4.1 talk

[Ronald van der Pol]

vd09+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) writes:

>Apologies if this is an FAQ, or doesn't belong in this newsgroup, but what did
>Sun do to talk in recent versions of SunOS?  It seems totally incompatible with
	Nothing, that's the problem :-)
>the Berkeley version.  Does anyone have specs (or, better yet, source) for the
>new protocol?
	SunOS still uses the 'old talk' (port 517). Berkeley now uses
	'ntalk' (port 518). They won't talk to each other. You may
	want to install talkd which listens on port 517 and ntalkd
	which listens on port 518. You too have to install both talk
	and ntalk in your bin-directory. 


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	Ronald van der Pol    <rvdp at cs.vu.nl>