About YTalk
YTalk is a compatible replacement for the
BSD
talk(1) program.
The main advantage of YTalk is the ability to communicate with any
arbitrary number of users at once. It supports both talk
protocols ("talk" and "ntalk") and can communicate with several
different talk daemons at the same time.
You may also spawn a command shell in your talk window and let
other users watch. YTalk supports a basic set of VT100 control
codes, as well as job control
(
BSD
support added in 3.1.3)
The program was originally written and maintained by
Britt Yenne
up to version 3.0pl2 in 1993. After that,
Roger Espel Llima
kept it alive for another ten years. In 2003, it was taken over by the
MetaWire Coding Group,
who only released one version (3.1.2).
Later YTalk was in the hands of Andreas Kling.
Currently is hosted in
Ourproject. You
can see the
project page.
Portability
YTalk has been tested and used on a number of systems and configurations,
including
GNU/Linux,
GNU/Hurd,
FreeBSD,
NetBSD,
OpenBSD,
Solaris,
MacOS X,
Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX,
HP-UX,
IRIX,
AIX,
QNX,
UnixWare and
BSD/OS.
It is both endian- and 64-bit safe, as well as 8-bit clean and perfectly
compatible with both types of talk daemons.
Please e-mail us at
ytalk [a-t] impul [d-o-t] se
if you are having any trouble building or running YTalk.