Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!hubcap!dkarres From: dkarres@hubcap.clemson.edu (dean karres) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Help with Talk Keywords: Talk command Message-ID: <6271@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 15:55:27 GMT References: <7518@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: dkarres@hubcap.UUCP (dean karres) Organization: Clemson University Lines: 37 First, type man talk this may answer many of your questions. "man" is the on-line manual pages. For help with "man" type man man Some System V unix vendors do not include "man" in thier basic installation package so you may have to resort to finding a (shudder) hardcopy manual ;-) Okay, now that that it out of the way... You enter "talk" by typing talk myfriend where "myfriend" is the username of the person you want to talk to. There are other options (on our version) that allow you to specify a user on another machine and perhaps the tty-device that (s)he is using. This will put you into talk and signal the other guy that you want to talk with him. If the other guy ignores you you very well may sit around for awhile waiting on nothing. If this is the case or if you want to terminate the connection for whatever reason type Ctrl-D. This stands (used to stand for?) EOF (End Of File). You generate Ctrl-D by pressing the "d" key while holding the "Ctrl" or "Control" key down. Sort of like Shift-d = "D" Happy talking :-) dean karres PS you may find that the MA Bell's phones are much less frustrating ;-) -- Dean Karres dkarres@hubcap.clemson.edu "...This ain't no party! this ain't no disco!..." nuts!!!