Subj : Re: Pine, TIN etc.
To   : tenser
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun May 19 2024 09:28 am

-=> tenser wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga>  Av> I'm starting to wonder if we can (in some way) bring it back?

 Ga>  te> It's still there!  One can install it on most Unix-y systems,
 Ga>  te> Linux distributions, etc.

 Ga> It's installed by default on my Slackware Linux systems.  Haven't used
 Ga> it,  and don't know how to, but it is present and functional.

 te> So there are two components:

 te> * The talk server, which is actually just kind of a little,
 te>   in-memory database of talk _requests_, and
 te> * The talk client, of which `ytalk` is one but so are `talk`
 te>   and `ntalk`.

 te> The way the protocol works, in a nutshell, is that you send
 te> a talk "request" to a distant host by running the client.
 te> E.g.,

<SNIPPED for brevity>

Great info, thanks!  Saved for future reference, and may try to set this 
up eventually.  Appreciate the time you spent on explaining it!



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