eckert@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) (12/18/88)
I am looking for a replacement for 'talk'. Talk is not portable because it sends machine dependend structures across the net. Try compiling talk on a machine with a different structure alignement policy than the sun, and it will not talk with a sun or a vax. So, what i would like to know is: Is there any other program that allows talking between two or more users across the network ? It should use tcp or udp for the connection, and should be more portable and machine independend than talk. I have seen quite a lot of programs that work on one machine only, using shared memory or named pipes, but none that works with sockets. Of course, the program should be in the public domain, or at least freely copyable. Toerless Eckert (eckert@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)