Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!brian From: brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: talk problems between SUN and uVAX - (nf) Message-ID: <2441@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 10:26:10 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2441 Posted: Sat Jan 10 10:26:10 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 22:45:56 EST References: <6300001@iaoobelix.UUCP> Reply-To: brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) Organization: UCSD wombat breeding society Lines: 16 Lo these many years ago, I got a set of patches from jsq@ut-sally to fix up talk. Another set were distributed by muller@ucsd. Talk uses binary transmission of a complicated C structure in its attempt to establish the connection. Thus you run into problems of byte order between VAXen and Suns. And to top it off, even if you don't have byte ordering problems (say, between a Pyramid and a Sun), you still have packing problems - the structure contains chars, shorts, and ints, and on different machines, word alignment constraints cause the compilers to pack the structure differently. This program should shoot itself and be replaced. One of these days... Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA