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

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:53, Dave Fisher wrote:
> 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.

RH9 definitely starts with it disabled.  Looks like RH73 does too.

Of course talk was never a patch on the VMS phone command, or even
whatever the phone equiv was on TOPS-10 or TOPS-20 (OK thats going back
a little - around 20 years :-/ )

	Nigel.
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