On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ingo Saitz wrote: > MoiN > > On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Jim wrote: > > > Is there a way I can real time chat with other users on our remote > > Debian system? > > I think there was an echo command on my old Novel system but that was > > many years ago. Is there a like utility on Debian? > > You talk about a program called talk? You can find it in the packages > `talk' and `talkd' (slink - don't know where they are in hamm). Install > the talkd on that host the users are logged in you wish to talk to, and > then call > > talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (or only `talk user', if you are on the same host). There are more > talk-clients out there, you can try `ytalk' e.g. included in debian.
There is even a (dare I say it) winblows version... cant remember where I got it, try winfiles.com. > Ingo > -- > Starting Java... Nice... :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who can, do. Those who can't, don't. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out!