>>> Frank van der Linden writes:

     > Quoting John C. Hayward,
    >> Some other systems (in particular a SUN I am trying to talk with)
    >> uses talk not ntalk.

    >> Where would be the best place to get the sources for talkd which
    >> use the older talk protocol for a NetBSD machine?

     > Unfortunately, Sun still uses the old talk protocol, which I have
     > been told is broken in a couple of ways. 

Does Solaris still suck in this respect? Welcome to the future...

-bri