Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!shelby!polya!Teknowledge.COM!vaxc!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: feldman@boris.Tymnet.COM (Steve Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: SunOS talk protocol Keywords: Software Message-ID: <1824@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:41:46 GMT Sender: USENET News SystemOrganization: Sun-Spots Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 146, message 2 of 5 Actually, Sun used the 4.2bsd talk program, which had byte-order dependencies in the protocol. In 4.3bsd, talk was modified to use network byte ordering in the protocol, making it machine independent. It uses a different UDP port number also. Unfortunately, Sun never adopted this version. There are two ways you could go: 1) Port the 4.3 talk program to the sun. I did this once a long time ago, and it wasn't too hard. 2) Modify the 4.2 talk program (in /usr/src/old on the 4.3 distribution) to use network byte order. I've never tried this. Steve Feldman Tymnet