Subject: Re: your mail

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 21:32:12 -0500 (EST)

HELLO.....

Hi, I have a problem with using the pine.  My problem is I want to talk to
my friend by pine.  I am using the unix system, cold you explain to me how
can I talk to my friend.  I know that you have to set the pine to "allow
talk" then the to prompt you have to type my friend address, but when I
type it did not gave me another screan to allow me to type.  So please
take this and explain to me as soon as possible.  This is very imporotant
matter to me.  Thank you, it will very help full to me. 

sincerly, 
Sivaramalingam, Rajbavan

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:58:02 +0000 (GMT)

Pine is not an interactive two-way chat program; for that you need to use
a separate program.  On most UNIX systems this other program is called
"talk".

The "allow-talk" option in Pine's Setup Configuration screen controls
whether other people can contact you using the "talk" program whilst you
are running Pine.

By default Pine makes sure these talk-requests are turned off so that its
screen displays aren't messed up by unexpected characters arriving.  If
you turn on the "allow-talk" option you are indicating you are happy to
allow others to request a "talk" session with you and are prepared to have
your screen messed up should they do so.

However to actually accept the connection and communicate with them you
will need to quit out of Pine and use the "talk" command to accept their
talk-request.

All of this is, of course, explained in Pine's own built-in help for the
"allow-talk" option.  If you had bothered to ask it for help (by typing
"?" whilst your cursor was on the "allow-talk" variable name) you would
have seen it for yourself.  :-}

Cheers,

-- 
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:54:06 +0100 (CET)

>HELLO.....

Yeah, hello...

  >matter to me.  Thank you, it will very help full to me.

1. Check if you have talk installed on your system:
	which talk

2. Check if you have the following. 
	/etc/hosts     to find the recipient's machine
	/var/run/utmp  to find the recipient's tty

3. Talk to your sysadmin or helpdesk, or read the talk man page
	man talk

Enjoy.

  >sincerly,

Cheers,
Robin

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       On the package it said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"  
	       			      ...  so I got myself Linux.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:20:07 -0500

{posted and courtesy emailed}

> matter to me.  Thank you, it will very help full to me. 

    You cannot talk to your friend by Pine.  A talk function is
different from handling email and news, which are the functions of
Pine.  The online help for the allow-talk option explains things very
well.  Turning on this option allows you to be notified if someone
wants to talk to you.  You must then suspend or quit Pine and use
whatever talk program is installed on your system.  At this point you
are no longer using Pine and therefore no longer dealing with the
subject of this nerwsgroup.  Try entering   man talk   or    man ytalk
for further information.

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