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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: talk Date: 15 May 1997 19:27:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5lfo35$1hd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E9zpAx.Esp@nonexistent.com> <5l7of4$5nk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5lcbci$rdd@graves.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40998 dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) wrote: > Could it be an endian'ness problem ? I know some versions > of talk have problems. Our old MIPS machines can't talk to > our sparc stations, and give exactly the message you mention. He talked about ntalkd, and this one has been cleaned off endianess problems. Sun is (IMHO) silly enough to still ship their systems with the old talkd. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)