Subject: Re: bin/896: talk(1) does not interoperate with non-NetBSD systems
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@lagavulin.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/22/1995 16:09:42
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> > >Description:
> > 	talk(1) no longer interoperates with non-NetBSD (current?) systems,
> > 	getting stuck repeating the "[Checking for invitation]" message over
> > 	and over.
> > 
> > >How-To-Repeat:
> > 	Try using talk(1) to a non-NetBSD system, such as BSD/386 1.1, Ultrix,
> > 	Solaris 2.3 etc...
> 
> i just tried it with NetBSD -current and NetBSD-1.0-or-so, against
> Ultrix.  it also works against DEC OSF/1 3.x (now DEC UNIX, i guess),
> but not OSF/1 2.0 (because 2.0 had a broken talk/talkd).
> 
> i don't have a BSD/386 1.1 system to try it against, but until i try
> it and it fails, i'm not convinced that it doesn't work...

Hm...  Is it possible that there are something wrong with the C library
or something around February 18th that could cause this?  I will upgrade
to the most current code and try again.

Thorsten

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