Subject: Re: bin/896: talk(1) does not interoperate with non-NetBSD systems
To: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/22/1995 19:02:54
> >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...



cgd