gavron@sunquest.UUCP (Ehud Gavron) (07/03/90)
Archive-name: tgv.com/03-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: gavron@sunquest.UUCP (Ehud Gavron) Original-subject: Re: Major bug in TALK on WIN/TCP for VMS Archive-site: tgv.com [192.41.228.65] Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <28296.2689c707@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>, billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes: > Hi, > > In WIN/TCP for VMS 5.1, TALK does not handle userids with numeric characters > in them correctly. > > If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know. Install MultiNet. Its versions of TALK (as well as SMTP, FINGER, nameservice, R services, etcetera) all work as per the RFCs. > Billy Barron Bitnet : BILLY@UNTVAX > University of North Texas Internet : billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu > > PS The ANONYMOUS account on TWG.COM gives a "User Authorization Failure" > message now. PS The ANONYMOUS account on TGV.COM (the developers of Multinet) is full of useful information. :-) Ehud -- | Ehud Gavron, Systems analyst | sunquest!gavron@cs.arizona.edu (uucp) | | Sunquest Information Systems | sunquest!gavron@uunet.uu.net (alternate) | | 930 N. Finance Center Drive | gavron@sunquest.com (domain) | | Tucson, Arizona, 85710 | (602)885-7700 x.2546 (AT&Tnet) |