info@edoc.co.za wrote:

Hi,

I'm would like to use "talk" to commicate with somebody using win95.

Is there a "talk" equivalent for Win95?

Well, Win9x has the winpop for network communications and I've set up a little script here that does communicate with win9x here:-) Another script (Samba wouldn't handle the read message command due to property problems with the temp file, so I created a little script that would handle that problem as well.... (I called that one "ReadPop") The one that Writes to the Win machine is called "winpop":-) I've attached both scripts, hope they help:-) -- cya l8r mailto: Linux User 78912 ( Linux Box) Corruption is not the #1 priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the law and fight crime. -- P.B.A. President E. J. Kiernan </PRE> <PRE> #!/bin/sh # # ReadPop - Reads a Pop up Message from Win95 Machine # FILE=$1 chmod 660 $FILE echo $FILE /usr/bin/X11/xedit -display :0 $FILE rm $FILE</PRE> <PRE> #!/bin/sh # # File=/root/bin/winpop # # Used to Pop messages to win95 machine # MSG=$1 TARGET=$2 if [ -z $TARGET ]; then TARGET=Win95 fi TMPFILE="/tmp/office.msg" SMB="smbclient -U $HOSTNAME -M $TARGET" echo -e "`date +if [ -z $MSG ]; then echo "Please Press Ctrl-D to send message!" cat >> $TMPFILE else echo $MSG >> $TMPFILE fi echo -e "\n" >> $TMPFILE echo -n if [ -f $TMPFILE ]; then cat $TMPFILE | $SMB rm $TMPFILE fi