Subject: question

From: Marie Bernadette Madrid <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:59:21 -0700

I have a question.  A friend of mine in Missouri told me that we can
communicate by the computer.  Not e-mailing each other but having our
computers talking to one another.  Do you have any suggestions that I may
try to get this to work?  I have tried through my e-mail but it doesn't let
me.  I can send her regular e-mail thats no problem.  This is the way she
tries to reach me on my computer at New Mexico State.  This is what she wrote:

As far as talking on the computers you have to get into the internet program
and do it from there.  New Mexico State has PINE so try that and see if you
can make a connection.  The computer will let you know if it can get
through, I know that I can because I tried but you were not logged on to the
system and thats why I could not talk to  you, its like trying to send
e-mail except that you have to type "talk user id."  and then wait till I
answer.  Inorder for this to work both parties have to be logged on to the
system.

I hope that you can help me.  I was just wondering if there is a way to do
this. I would really appreciate your input.

Thanks,

Marie B. Madrid
Agronomy and Horticulture
New Mexico state University

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:42:01 -0700 (MST)

> answer.  Inorder for this to work both parties have to be logged on to the

What she's talking about is a Unix daemon.  Not at all related to Pine 
electronic mail, and cannot be used from within Pine.
Talk is a Unix daemon that allows a two-way conversation between two Unix 
accounts.
Both people must be logged in to their accounts at the same time (you can 
use finger, another Unix daemon, to determine if the other person is 
logged in or not) for Talk to work.
Different releases of Talk don't communicate well with each other, and 
sometimes if the two machines have the talk daemon loaded on different 
ports, it won't work either.  You'll have to find out by trial and error.

To find out if your friend is logged in to her account, type the 
following at the Unix (system) prompt in your account:

finger login

where login is the name of her account.  ie, if you wanted to finger my 
account you would type

finger maldridg

To initiate a talk session with your friend, type the following at the 
Unix (system) prompt in your account:

talk [email-masked]

where the [email-masked] string is her e-mail address.  If you 
wanted to talk to someone on the same machine as you, you would only have 
to type 

talk login

So, to talk to my account, for example, you'd type

talk [email-masked]

Hope this information helps you out some...

Lea

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