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34.\" 35.Dd December 11, 1993 36.Dt TALKD 8 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm talkd 40.Nd remote user communication server 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Sh DESCRIPTION |
44The 45.Nm 46utility |
47is the server that notifies a user that someone else wants to 48initiate a conversation. 49It acts as a repository of invitations, responding to requests 50by clients wishing to rendezvous to hold a conversation. 51In normal operation, a client, the caller, 52initiates a rendezvous by sending a 53.Tn CTL_MSG 54to the server of --- 16 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 71address and the caller and callee client programs establish a 72stream connection through which the conversation takes place. 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr talk 1 , 75.Xr write 1 76.Sh HISTORY 77The 78.Nm |
79utility appeared in |
80.Bx 4.3 . |