SUMMARY: ntalk

From: David Worrell (dworrell@isnet.is.wfu.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 03 1994 - 01:58:27 CST


On Mon, 28 Nov 1994, David Worrell wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> We recently upgraded from a SPARC 2 to a SPARC 20 and also from SunOS 4.1.3
> to Solaris 2.3. The main purpose of this workstation is to provide internet
> access. Many users were using ntalk to "talk" to users on other systems.
>
> The talk that is supplied with Solaris 2.3 is platform dependent; whereas,
> ntalk is not but apparently is a BSD implementation. I can't seem to locate
> a copy that has been ported to Solaris 2.x. Does anyone know where I can get
> one? Alternatively, is there a way of doing a "BSD" compatible compile either
> with the SUN SPARCompiler C or GNU C? Or is my only recourse to "bite the
> bullet" and do the port myself?
>

Thanks to the following respondents:

Pete Shipley <shipley@merde.dis.org>
Timothy G Smith - Special Projects <tgsmith@Sun.COM>
root@titan.fullerton.edu (0000-Admin(0000))
Michael Myers <mmyers@willamette.edu>
david@org-bone.ucsf.edu (David Burzota)
arvin@rapunzel.unm.edu (Arvin S. Bhullar)
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
ld kelley <ldk@lsci.com>
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)

Summary:

        - learn to program or ditch Solaris
        - use /usr/ucb/cc the source compatibility package compiler (SCP)
        - try ra.msstate.edu or cs.orst.edu [for ntalk source]
        - use the SunOS compatibility mode to run the old binary
        - use ytalk as client and ntalkd as the server

Conclusion:

I already know how to program but don't really have the time or inclination
to port ntalk or ditch Solaris. I did, however, use a combination of the
remaining ideas:

        - copied the ntalk binary from SunOS 4.1.3
        - ftped ntalk.tar.Z from ftp.msstate.edu
        - compiled and installed ntalkd
        - ftped ytalk from ftp.uu.net
        - compiled and installed ytalk

Note: I couldn't get ntalk to compile - that's why I used the old binary.
       Also, note that ntalk is not really necessary since ytalk will use
       ntalkd if the target host only supports ntalk.

David N. Worrell
Lead Systems Programmer

NC Baptist Hospital/Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Medical Center Blvd
Winston-Salem, NC 27157

(910)716-4700 (voice)
(910)716-5265 (fax)
dworrell@isnet.is.wfu.edu



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