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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:49:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        paul@netcraft.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, loodvrij@gridpoint.com
Subject:   Re: Patch to talkd
Message-ID:  <199603241849.KAA27707@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <22960.827679559@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 24, 96 06:59:19 am

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> 
> > Umm, you might live to regret that. It's really annoying to get talk requests
> > going to your elm window, or your tail -f window or ....
> > Of course this could happen before but it's more likely now.
> 
> I think it's more annoying to miss them when they go to ttyv0, and
> this has happened to me more times than I can count.  I here
> _something_ beeping somewhere but am at a loss as to where or what.
> 
> If I don't like talk requests, I can always mesg n in my elm window,
> after all! :)

As a side effect of this patch what happens to a talk request if your
least idle xterm has mesg n turned on?  Does the talk fall back to
another xterm, or do you get an error now?


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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