On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:21:41 +1300
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thursday 22 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >  ... I was sort of thinking along the lines of gaim to communicate at the
> > > same time.
> >
> > Yes. good point.
> Nah!
> 
> Unix codgers just write to the other user, or use talk/talkd when feeling 
> sophisticated. X? - What a load of futz. ( As we are seeing :-)
> 
> man write
> man mesg
> man talk  ( if you've got it installed )
> 
> And some URLs for youngsters to click on.
> http://gnutalk.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.impul.se/ytalk/
> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org /pub/linux/Networking/netkit/netkit-ntalk-0.17.tar.gz
> 
> --
OK, this is going way off topic, but if we were talking old unix codgers, then 
they wouldn't need this service in the first place, as they'd have used their 
hex editor to patch the X-ecutable directly!

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