Yeah, all I wanted was aback up for when both ICQ
and aol im puck up and don't me connect,
then my buddies can ssh into my machine, and
we can all use the talk thing like I used to back
in the 70's.
On Sunday 11 March 2001 10:05 am, so spoke Meph Istopheles:
> While I've not been using Linux more than a couple of years,
> I'd started back in later '94/early '95 with shell accounts in
> either SysV or FreeBSD boxes. Each had talk, & I liked it.
> Later, I found ytalk. It works a little better & supports a few
> more features.
>
> Maybe I'm getting old (though I've always been a bit
> misanthropic;-), but when it comes to communication, I prefer a
> text-based deal. I don't chat much, but I've tried some of the
> gui apps, & some of the avatar systems on the Web. All in all, I
> prefer ytalk.
>
> But I've not taken the time to figure out why talk isn't
> cooperative either in lm7.2 or in RH 6.0. It wouldn't be so bad
> if talk actually worked -- primitive as it is -- but I, for one,
> haven't figured out why it just sits & times out even when set up
> on the boxes where the people are.
>
> Meph
