On Oct 19,  9:54am, Frank van der Linden wrote:
} Quoting John C. Hayward,
} 
} >    Some other systems (in particular a SUN I am trying to talk with) uses
} > talk not ntalk.  
...
} Unfortunately, Sun still uses the old talk protocol, which I have been told
} is broken in a couple of ways. I don't think the old 'talk' was encumbered,

  One of the big problems with old talk protocol is that it is not byte-order
independant.  A VAX or i386 system will not be able to communicate with
a Sun system running the old talk because of this.

Michael

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