Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!nott-cs!ucl-cs!J.Crowcroft From: J.Crowcroft@ucl-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Looking for a program like xtalk... Message-ID: <408@ucl-cs.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 89 09:40:10 GMT Sender: J.Crowcroft@ucl-cs.UUCP Lines: 29 From: Jon Crowcroft>I have many ideas but not the knowlege to implement them. (So don't ask me >for source code. :-) I know enough X to know what you can do and what you >can't do, but not enough to program. (Sort of like knowing everything you >can make twm do wit >hout ever touching or looking at the source code.) >If anyone wants to take a shot at this, feel free. I release all copyrights >to this idea. Eric, i posted a simple n way x talk - ish type proggy to comp.sources.x a while back - it wasnt bug free, and i have only had a few (but useful) comments back on it - it used rusers (sun rpc) to locate users, so you didnt need to know where the users were logged in (i didnt hack it to find which display they were on, or whether it ran X at all...) coz the top level popped up, you got a notification that someone was trying to chat, and you could add and delete members of the thingy while running...i can describe more if you like - some people here actually use it!! jon (p.s. i think its a discovery, not an invention, so not copywritable...)