This is the BSD talk and talkd ported to A/UX.  The original sources were
obtained from uunet.uu.net:bsd-sources.  All A/UX patches are protected by
ifdef's so the original code can be re-claimed by using the original makefiles
"Makefile.orig" or by un-defining macII in each "Makefile".

Installation of BSD talk is very simple but a little background will make
things eaisier if you dont already dont know what is going on.  Here is what
I think I know.

There seems to be 2 flavors of talk.  There is the old version of talk,
which apprears to have come on BSD 4.2 (and below?) and A/UX (all SVR2?),
and there is the new talk which is on many newer platforms. Also, some
vendors are supplying both versions of talk and it is up to you to figure
out what version to use.  As you can guess, the two versions of talk dont
like each other and dont even acknowledge each others existance.  If you
have ever tried to talk to another machine and just gotten the message
"[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]", then you are probably
trying to talk to a machine with a different version of talk than you have.

Here is what to look for to determine what version a particular system
is using.  The file "/etc/inetd.conf" or "/etc/servers" (Only A/UX?),
contains a list of daemons.  You should see an entry for talk and/or ntalk
and the associated daemon to run; ntalk being the new talk.

Since you will probably want to have both version of talk installed, I
have decided to call the new talk ntalk and the new talk daemon will
inform you that it has recieved a talk request.  e.g.

	Message from Talk_Daemon@melmac.gsfc.nasa.gov at 19:54 ...
	talk: connection requested by xrsbg@charney.gsfc.nasa.gov.
	talk: respond with:  ntalk xrsbg@charney.gsfc.nasa.gov
			      ^^ 
			     ntalk as opposed to talk

See the file "INSTALLATION" for installation instructions.

Please let me know if you notice any mistakes or have any comments.

Steve Green
xrsbg@dirac.gsfc.nasa.gov
steveg@melmac.umd.edu
