From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix!greg Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: linking between users Article-I.D.: isrnix.142 Posted: Sun Jul 25 22:26:42 1982 Received: Wed Jul 28 06:19:53 1982 We have a program called 'talk' that simply sets your terminal into cbreak mode and as you type characters, outputs them to another tty (by opening the other tty ('natch)). It VERY simple, if two people want to talk, they both just type: talkand the program clears a line on the other persons terminal and starts printing away. Very simple. A bit obnoxious if the other person doesnt want to talk, but we dont have problems...Works great. I'm also working on a program much like the "autocom" program on PLATO, which will allow multiple talking channels (8 people per channel, all with their own window on the screen, public and private channels, channels can be set for 'topics' of discussion)...I doubt I'll even start on it till september....I'm pretty backed up here...