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  Control Your Mac from Afar
Subject:   Talk
Date:   2003-09-22 10:27:20
From:   bizard
Although the chat method you cited was novel, it would be rather difficult to carry on a decent conversation using the applescripts and dialogs. You could, however, use the dialog box to say 'Open the terminal and talk to me.'


Of course, I just tried this to make sure it worked before posting and it seems that I have a problem with my terminal settings and it doesn't work. Anyway, if someone feels like explaining how to get 'talk' (an old unix chat program) it is a nice way to communicate with another logged in command line user.
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  • Talk
    2003-09-24 20:01:06  Harold Martin | [View]

    You might want to look at:
    http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/ytalk
    • Talk
      2003-09-25 09:53:55  anonymous2 [View]

      It's also installed by default, AFAICT.
  • Talk
    2003-10-14 07:30:22  anonymous2 [View]

    Alternatively, use AppleScript to open iChat and launch a chat session with you.

    For the truely evil, launch a video chat...

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