'Talk' command and protocol (useable replacement)

[Rob Healey]

In article <704 at htsa.uucp> hanst at htsa.uucp (Hans Trompert) writes:
>In article <20431 at ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee at ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>>I have the sources to phone (obtained from Jonathan back whenever).  If there
>>is enough interest, I could make them available for anonymous ftp or mail them
>>to some people (if the number of interested folks is few).   If it came out
>>in 1985, and was posted to the net, it's probably in an archive somewhere,
>>but I never can seem to find archives for mod and comp.sources.
>
>We sure are interested, and I think many others are interested as well.
>But we have no access to anonymous ftp, so why dont you post it on the net
>if many people are interested.
	
	Have you people had any problems with the code? I snarfed a copy
	off of eddie.mit.edu. It looks like it was written in the
	"WHAT! There's other computers besides a VAX!" era. It bombs on
	Sun's and an Encore Multimax, both 4.2 machines. The Sun works OK
	some of the time but try holding a 3 or more conversation across the
	network and ka-blewy... The user interface seems to be the main
	culprit. Anyone hacked on this code that could give me pointer's on
	what to do to get it to work on the Encore and not to crash on the
	Sun? I couldn't get it to run under bind/-lresolv on either machine.
	I had hoped the days of crudy Vax programs had gone forever... This
	program looks to be worth saving though, to bad Berkeley couldn't have
	made it a working replacement for talk. Even more amazing is it runs
	in user mode so no nasty SUID surprises.

		Thanks for any help,

		     -Rob Healey

		     rhealey at ub.d.umn.edu