szeto@aludra.usc.edu (Johnny Szeto) (09/20/90)
I have an interesting conversation with one of my friends in Canada. BTW, we were conversing over the 'talk' command on unix. But somehow I think there are some problems associated with the process. i) sometimes I got the mesg "target machine cannot be recognised" ii)other times, I got "addr has already been in use (48)" iii)last time it was even so frustrating: I was trying to connect with him while he was doing the same thing at the same time. I have got his talk-initiation mesg on my screen while my machine was pinging him! My questions are: why do these kinds of things happen? is there any documentation in RFC that a simple description of the algorithm can be found? I have had success sometimes but I had to request so many times before connection could be established. Thanks in advance. Truly, Leung