Re: Remote Chat
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> MoiN
>
> On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Jim wrote:
>
> > Is there a way I can real time chat with other users on our remote
> > Debian system?
> > I think there was an echo command on my old Novel system but that was
> > many years ago. Is there a like utility on Debian?
>
> You talk about a program called talk? You can find it in the packages
> `talk' and `talkd' (slink - don't know where they are in hamm). Install
> the talkd on that host the users are logged in you wish to talk to, and
> then call
>
> talk user@host
>
> (or only `talk user', if you are on the same host). There are more
> talk-clients out there, you can try `ytalk' e.g. included in debian.
There is even a (dare I say it) winblows version... cant remember where I
got it, try winfiles.com.
> Ingo
> --
> Starting Java...
Nice... :)
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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