talkd(8c)talkd(8c)Nametalkd - inter-terminal communications server
Syntax
/etc/talkd
Description
The program is the server for the program. The server provides a ren‐
dezvous method for the requesting (possibly remote) and the local
responding
The server is invoked by when it receives a packet on the port indi‐
cated in the talk service specification.
Restrictions
The server does not strictly follow network byte order in its packet
format and may have difficulty in talking with implementations of on
other architectures that do not take this into account.
The version of released with ULTRIX V3.0 uses a protocol that is incom‐
patible with the protocol used in earlier versions. Starting with
ULTRIX V3.0, the program communicates with other machines running
ULTRIX, V3.0 (and later), and machines running 4.3 BSD or versions of
UNIX based on 4.3 BSD.
The command is not 8-bit clean. Typing in DEC Multinational Characters
(DECMCS) causes the characters to echo as a sequence of a carets (^)
followed by the character represented with its high bit cleared. This
limitation makes unusable if you want to communicate using a language
which has DECMCS characters in its alphabet.
See Alsotalk(1), services(5), inetd(8c), ntalkd(8c)talkd(8c)
