NOTE:
This is a historical page, for recent information you can go to
current YTalk page.
YTalk
What is YTalk?
YTalk is multi-user talk program, that is compatible with the older Unix
talk clients and daemons. It lets you communicate interactively with
other people on the internet.
When using YTalk, the screen is split into two or more regions or
windows, one for each person with whom you are talking. Each key you
type appears on your region, and on the screens of each other user in
the conversation. Each key typed by another user appears in that user's
region.
YTalk was originally written by Britt Yenne in 1990. Version 3.0pl2
came out in 1993. After a long time without releases, I took over
maintenance and released a few versions.
NEW: Since 2003, YTalk maintenance has been taken over
by the folks at Metawire.
Please check their YTalk page
for the latest releases and news about YTalk.
The last version of YTalk that I released was YTalk 3.1.1.
YTalk 3.1.1 features
- multiple simultaneous connections, compatible with Unix Talk as well
as previous versions of YTalk.
- text-based or X11 interface, at your choice
- YTalk windows scroll, instead of wrapping around
- start shells inside YTalk, type commands and let your partners see them
- Ytalk is 8-bit clean, so you can type all those cool accented characters
- you can save any side of the current conversation, including yours
- you can define aliases for addresses of people to ring or for hostnames
to ring them on.
- support for virtual hosts and multi-homed machines
- YTalk is very configurable
- lots of bugfixes, especially on Linux and Solaris
- even more bugfixes now
- Ytalk is Y2K clean; as far as I know it has always been, since all
the date-processing it does is comparing Unix timestamps in seconds since
1 Jan 1970. This is silly, but I've been asked a couple times already
about Ytalk's Y2K status...
Downloading
Please mail me if YTalk
has any trouble compiling or running on your systems.
Copying
YTalk is free software; it can be freely used, copied,
redistributed, and/or modified, as long as all the copyright notices are
left intact.
NOTE:
This is a historical page, for recent information you can go to
current YTalk page.