TALK Daemon questions

[Michael A. Petonic]

In article <EMV.90Sep19221142 at picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv at math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
> [ On why 4.2 BSD talk(1) is broken between machines. ]
>   My questions are:
>   why do these kinds of things happen?
>
>Byte ordering problems are the culprit here.  The protocol for in.talkd
>on 4.2-based systems is architecture dependent and cannot be relied to
>work between machines of different vendors.

See.  You wouldn't have those problems with OSI....   :-)

-MikeP