Title:        ytalk
Version:      3.0.2
Submitted:    Aug 19 1993
Author:       yenne@austin.eds.com (Britt Yenne)
Submittor:    yenne@austin.eds.com (Britt Yenne)
Description:  multi-user replacement for the UNIX "talk" program

Okay... believe it or not, here it finally is.  Several people who have been
mailing me for months to ask about the status of 3.0 graciously
"volunteered" to beta-test, and all appears to work.

Ytalk is in essence a multi-user replacement for the UNIX "talk" program.
Not only will ytalk allow any number of users to connect with one another,
but it also will communicate with _both_ UNIX talk daemons, as well as
daemons compiled incorrectly and/or with byte-order or address boundary
problems.

There is a very large ytalk following spanning every continent, and older
versions of ytalk are available on more anonymous FTP sites than I can even
keep track of, but this is the first time I have attempted to post the
sources to a newsgroup.  Somehow, this seems more organized (or maybe I'm
frightfully naive... :-)

Version 3.0 is also the first ytalk source I am actually proud of.  It has
been completely rewritten since 2.3 to remove all of the desperate hacks
placed in response to incoming bug reports and comments.

My development platform is a Sun SPARC.  Although I have tested on every
platform I have access to, I am always looking for cross-platform compile
problems should anyone wish to mail me some.

        As always, have fun.
        -britt

        yenne@austin.eds.com