From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 07:32:46 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: Roger Ivie cc: OPENDOS-DEVELOPER AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos-developer] Testing testing 1 2 3. In-Reply-To: <01IEWDD77YV690TL6Z@cc.usu.edu> Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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 LINUX: The ONLY bulletproof 32-bit operating system that has it all.