From: ajt@puffin.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis) Subject: Re: talk/ytalk Date: 28 Jul 1992 16:37:08 GMT
gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
: Has anyone managed to find/compile a "talk" program to Linux? I just
: made a valiant attempt at porting ytalk 2.0 to Linux, but it appears
: that we're missing some vital network kernel support (stuff like recv,
: sendto, gethostbyname, getservbyname). Is there something out there
: that provides the same function (talking) that is easier to port?
: Thanks..
I'm using the talk posted to comp.os.minix a while ago which just needed
sgtty.h things changing to termios.h things for gcc 2.2.2 under Linux 0.96c
I can't remember the author or version, but it should be in your local
Minix archive. I've used it to talk to people who have dialed in to my
PC over a modem and it seems to work ok.
Tony