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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Talk problems btw. FreeBSD & Sun
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[ Talk problems Sun <-> FreeBSD ]

> > That's because Sun uses a *very* old (6-7 years) version of talk that
> > doesn't work over machines that use different byte orders, sucn as Sun's
> > and PC's.  The *ONLY* machines that Sun's will 'talk' to are other suns.
> 
> Now that's awfull!!! Weren't the things meant to be consistent in the use 
> of byte order?

They were once it was figured out, but Sun never shipped the new
versions since it's *NOT* backwards compatible with the old version. :(

> Perhaps there is a way of getting that /usr/old/talk?

I'm not sure, but ytalk *might* be able to talk to the Suns.  Someone
with more experience in that matter may be able to verify that.
Download ytalk and check the docs.


Nate