Subject: "Direct Talk Connection"???

From: [email-masked] (Patrick Walsh)
Date: 3 Jan 1996 13:14:56 GMT

(My first posting; let's see if I can get the body of my article included 
this time!)

Is there such a thing as 'direct talk connection' in Pine?

If so, how does one establish it?

Thanks-

P. Walsh

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:14:09 +0000 (GMT)

If you mean "is there a way that I can persuade Pine to send characters 
from my keyboard as I type them to someone else's screen and vice versa" 
then the answer is "No".

Pine is a message handling program for reading and sending electronic 
mail messages and Usenet News articles.

For immediate two-way interactive "talking" you want to look at the 
"talk" or "ytalk" programs, or (possibly) an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) 
program.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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