Subject: Re: "talk" and Pine (was: your mail)

From: Matthew C Agrall <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:40:33 -0500 (CDT)

I was curious about a feature that you might have.  My friend who attends
SIUE also has pine and she heard that we would be able to talk back and
forth like a chat line by this system, by entering "talk" at the ecom
prompt.  Is this so, and if it is, how do I use it?  Thank you for your
time and trouble.

Hasta luego-Matthew

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From: Jeff <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:23:28 -0400 (EDT)

> prompt.  Is this so, and if it is, how do I use it?  Thank you for your

"real time" chat is not a feature of Pine. However, if you have access to
a unix shell, you can take advantage of the unix "talk" command. The basic
syntax of this command is "talk [email-masked]". To talk to joe
brown at nowhere university, you would type "talk [email-masked]". Joe
would see a talk request from you on his screen, and be able to respond if
he so desired. Talk requires that a talk server be running on both
machines (likely, unless the administration has disabled it), access to
the talk command via unix shell or another method, and a willingness on
both parts to talk.

Pine does have a feature called "allow-talk". When you are in Pine, you
can disable the ability of others to page you with "talk", so that your
screen is not disrupted with their request while you are composing email.
You accomplish by setting the "allow-talk" feature off.

There is no real reason to set this, unless you find it a huge annoyance.
You can redraw your screen in Pine at any time by holding down the control
key and pressing L.

The "allow-talk" command is functionally equivalent to the unix "mesg y"
command- and disabling "allow-talk" is similar to the "mesg n" command.
The difference is, the changes only take effect while in Pine.

Good luck, and good night.

-jeff

--
Jeff - [email-masked]
PGP Public Key available at http://tcnet.org/~jeff/pubkey.txt

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Sep 1997 07:31:33 +0200

>> "MCA" == Matthew C Agrall schrieb am Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:40:33
>> -0500 (CDT): 

MCA> I was curious about a feature that you might have.  My friend who
MCA> attends SIUE also has pine and she heard that we would be able to
MCA> talk back and forth like a chat line by this system, by entering
MCA> "talk" at the ecom prompt.  Is this so, and if it is, how do I
MCA> use it?  Thank you for your time and trouble.

1. Use a subject line.

2. Use a signature.

3. Read the faq. Pine is an MUA, not a talk program. Talk or ytalk
   or... are talk programs. Hence the name.

Sometimes I wonder if it really takes a full frontal lobotomy to gain
admission to an American university.

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
"They don't let you teach there, do they?"
Annelise Anderson in comp.mail.pine