talk and talkd

[Michael I. Bushnell]

In article <233 at jim.odr.oz> brw at jim.odr.oz (Brian Wallis) writes:

>Does anyone know the protocol that the `talk' program uses to talk to the
>daemon `talkd'? Or does anyone have source to a PD `talk' program?
>(In case it's relevant, we are running Ultrix 2.0 on a MvaxII + SunOS 3.2
>on a Sun3/110)

Yeah, I know the protocol.  I am working on an emacs lisp/c program to
do talk in emacs.  You can figure out the protocol, kind of, from the
relevant include file.  Incidentally, talkd is used only to rendezvous
the talks.  It doesn't transfer the info, the talks do that
themselves.

>What I would like to do is write a version to use with a GNU emacs `talk'
>mode rather than suspend emacs each time I use talk (a lot).

>I'd also like to stop talkd splattering it's message all over the screen, a
>message in the mode line and ringing the bell would be better.

Since talkd is the system program, you can't change its behavior.
Sigh.

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