[RndTbl] talk/ntalk

[Tim Lavoie]

Hell, you could use ncat if that's all you want it to do.
Probably unlike talk/ntalk, I seem to recall that there are versions
supporting TLS or similar too.


Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca> writes:

> Has anyone gotten talk or ntalk working on a modern distro in the last few
> years?
>
> I can't get talk to work in Fedora 30 no matter what I do.  It installs
> with a systemd setup but it won't start that way.  I tried doing it the
> old xinetd way, but that doesn't seem to work either.
>
> Seems impossible?
>
> Any other ideas for extremely simple command line 2-person chat that uses
> no external servers (no I don't want to setup my own irc server!
> hopefully!)?
>
> Don't tell me I'll have to write my own...
>
> Thanks!
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