[Wylug-help] Looking for a old UNIX console based comms app.

[Dave Fisher]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:37:49PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> The basic app was talk.  There were a number of variants of it (ie
> ntalk, ytalk etc).
>
> It requires a daemon or listener process under inetd to be run -- which
> I have never enabled on any machine I've admined, so you might find it
> non-functional on your systems.  Sun systems were so insecure that
> running an extra daemon wasn't a security risk :-)

Just about every Linux distro I've used (lots) had talk enabled by
default ;-) ... indeed most of them looked like the same old BSD app that
all the commercial *nixes had decades before Windows and Mac heads
realised that talking by typing was really silly.

Dave