[comp.sys.apollo] talk-ing to Ultrix

conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe) (02/15/88)

Anyone know if the Apollo BSD 4.2 and Ultrix 2.0-1 are
or are not compatible?  The Apollo talk successfully
awakens the Ultrix talk facility, but the response from
Ultrix goes unrecognized.  Anyone else have
this problem, and, perhaps, a fix?
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jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (02/17/88)

	I've heard that there is a byte-order problem with BSD4.2's
talk, but I haven't examined the code to find this.  Unfortunately,
we are running Ultrix2.0 and have the same problem.  If Ultrix2.0
uses the 4.2 version of talk, that would explain it, but I would
think that they would use the 4.3 version (which I believe has the
error fixed).

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rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (02/19/88)

    I've heard that there is a byte-order problem with BSD4.2's
    talk, but I haven't examined the code to find this.

The 4.2 talk used a machine dependent protocol, and in general you
can't make it interoperate between different flavors of unix on
different machines.  I think this is fixed in bsd4.3 but haven't
actually tried it.