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A script to replace line breaks in 'talk'
Authored by: bjackson on Apr 12, '04 03:42:46PM

You only have to enable talkd if you want people on remote machines to connect to you from their machines:

talk brian@briansmachine.com

If you are both on the same machine (such as the poster describes) you just have to type:

talk brian

My install of Panther bottomed out with "talk: wendigo: Unknown host"

wendigo is the name of my machine. A quick edit of the /etc/hosts file did the trick. Make sure your entry for localhost looks like:

127.0.0.1 localhost wendigo

to be consistent I also put it in for IPV6:

::1 localhost wendigo

of course replace wendigo with your hostname :)

Brian

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