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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
To: woowoo@mark.petra.ac.id (wOOwOO)
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Subject: Re: TALK
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> I have problem with 'talk' program in FreeBSD.
> 
> When we use talk with another OS (e.g. Linux), our talk partner will see 
> non-terminating-line messages :
> 
> hello^Mhow are you?^M
> 
> The normal output should like this :
> 
> hello
> how are you?
> 
> How to fix this ? 

As I recall, Linux uses ntalk/ntalkd.  If talk/talkd man page on FreeBSD
doesn't help.  I'd grab that or ytalk and give it a shot.  I've used both
to Linux boxes with no problems a while back.

Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com