Write AND talk

Samuel Lam skl at van-bc.UUCP
Sun Oct 8 17:39:52 AEST 1989


In article <683 at mcorp.UUCP>, robcoo at mcorp.UUCP (Robin D. Coolidge) wrote:
>So I post question asking if there is a utility to replace write,
>and I get back 50 replies that say "talk(1)".  ...
>but it seems that none of my machines has talk, (and, since some people
>were not sure, there is no talk in xenix that I can find).

In mid-August, Jim Mattson <mattson at beowulf.ucsd.edu> of UCSD EE/CS
posted to alt.sources a System V talk program he wrote that works
like Berkeley talk(1).  This program also works on SCO Xenix.  It
is limited to intra-machine talk, but it is small and easy to install.

...Sam
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Samuel Lam     <skl at wimsey.bc.ca> or {uunet,ubc-cs}!wimsey.bc.ca!skl



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