[TUHS] Re: BSD talk program?

On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 2:21 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote: The only `ttylinkd` that I'm aware of is the one that's part of the Linux AX.25/NETROM/Rose suite. This lets a ham set up a service for one of those protocols; I set this up for connected-mode AX.25 at my QTH (`KZ2X-2` on 144.09 MHz in the Boston area). In a nutshell, if someone uses AX.25 and connects to that SSID, the system invokes the ttylinkd daemon, which knows enough about the `talk` protocol to connect to a talk daemon and send an invitation to a (fixed) user. That user can use any normal `talk` client to talk to the user on the radio end, allowing keyboard-to-keyboard communication. It's not character-by-character the way that normal "talk" is because AX.25 is in the way and generally wants to batch up keystrokes into lines/packets (it's slow), but it's kinda cool. Of course, no one around here uses it. :-( I suspect this is something different, and the name collision is just an unfortunate coincidence. - Dan C.