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Thought it would be fun to get the old talk program working in Linux…no luck. It really shouldn’t be that hard. The live typing feature was memorable.
@daniel the old #talk, the ancient instant messaging. I wonder how it will work when logged in a modern #desktopenvironment such as #gnome with no terminals opened
@daniel once again, I have no idea what you're talking about 🤣🤣🤣
Ok, got it working…that was tough.
~$ sudo apt install inetutils-talk inetutils-talkd inetutils-inetd
remove the "#<off>#" in front of the "talk dgram..." line in the /etc/inetd,conf file.
~$ sudo mv /bin/inetutils-talk /bin/talk
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart
Ta'Da, working, at least on the same box.