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Re: putty (Xfree terminal, talk)



On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:34:03PM +0200, Marcel Hicking wrote:
> "talk user" works fine for us, at least it has been
> working fine 10 minutes ago ;-)
> Make sure talk is configured correctly in /etc/inetd.conf

If a user has turned his messages off (mesg n) or they are off by
default, and he hasn't turned them on, this will not work...
Write will always work since it ignores the message setting.

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