john (07/21/82)
Sorry about putting this on the news, I don't know how to get to
decvax!cca!dove@mit-dspg@sri-unix (That was the return path.)
Referring to article I.D sri-unix.2148, someone was requesting an
alternitive to "write" for communicating between users. I have
written such a program called "talk" (what else?) which will set up
windows for up to five persons typing at five different terminals.
Each window is three lines long (This is adjustable.) Certain control
characters are recognized, but most are intercepted and thrown away
(to avoid nasty people sending nasty escape sequences.)
Now for the bad news. The program as written does not use curses,
it assumes that all terminals are VT100's. The other bad news is that
the program uses multiplexed files (which seem to be going out of style.)
Also, the program has not been tried on any other system than 4.1BSD
If anyone out there is interested, my mail address is:
decvax!genradbolton!john
John P. Nelson