From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Sun, 2 Feb 1997 07:32:46 -0500 (EST)
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To:	Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
cc:	OPENDOS-DEVELOPER AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos-developer] Testing testing 1 2 3.
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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Roger Ivie wrote:

> root AT capslock DOT com wrote:

Strange that this address has creeped up again.  Hmmm...

> >Note the smiley I used. :o)  Would be nice though...
> >
> >> > Question: How do you get talkd to work under Linux with a dynamic IP address?
> >> 
> >> Redefine 'work'?
> [[[ snip ]]]
> >Can you help me out?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> I'm sorry, perhaps I should have put a smiley in there; I was being
> facetious. What I did was give the helpful suggesting of changing what you
> mean by 'work' to be whatever it is talk does, therefore it would suddenly
> work under Linux.

Heh.  Ya, but that doesnt help me.  ;'(  I wonder if OpenDOS will have
a talk program?  :o)


> Unfortunately, I cannot help you. Although I do have a Linux box which dials
> up an ISP (I am responsible for the firewall at work, which is a Linux box
> connected to a modem; it dials into the ISP and uses proxies and socks to 
> turn that into internet service for the whole company), I don't use talk.
> I thought VMS' PHONE was annoying enough that I've never gotten into talk.

Hmmm.  I kindof like VMS PHONE.  I've had conference calls with it and
it works pretty good with 4 people on the screen (80x50 that is).  I
don't like the way talk jumps around the screen, I wish it would
scroll like VMS PHONE does actually.  Unfortunately, write and wall
are the only progams that I have right now for communication and it
makes me feel like I'm in the dark ages.  A friend telnets into my
machine once and a while, and I'd like some communication to happen.
Right now I've set up in.telnetttysnoop or whatever it's called as my
telnet program so that I can switch VC's to his terminal and watch
what he does, when he wants to talk he beeps my console and I switch,
then we run "cat > /dev/null" for communicating.  I think thats about
one step up from binary switches and lightbulbs!

TTYL

Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
Computer Consultant   |    My webpage has moved and my address has changed.
My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html
mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca

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