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... around the world. To find out if your host system offers
these, you can ask your system administrator or just try them -- if
nothing happens, then your system does not provide them.
In general,
if you can use telnet and ftp, chances are good you can use these
services as well.
11.1 TALK
This is the Net equivalent of a telephone conversation and
requires that both you and the person you want to talk to have access
to this function and are online at the same time. To use it, type
talk user@site.name
where user@site.name is the e-mail address of the other person. She will
see something like this on her email information screen:
talk: connection requested by yourname@site.name
talk: respond with: talk yourname@site.name
To start the conversation, she should then type (at her host system's
command line):
email information talk yourname@site.name
where that is your e-mail address. Both of you will then get a top
and bottom window on your screen. She will see everything you type in
one window; you'll see everything she types in the other. To
disconnect, hit control-C.
One note: Public-access sites that use Sun computers sometimes have
trouble with the talk program.
If talk does not work, try typing
otalk
or
ntalk
instead. However, the party at the other end will have to have the same
program online for the connection to work.
11.2 INTERNET RELAY CHAT
IRC is a program that lets you hold live keyboard conversations
with people around the world. It's a lot like an email hosting monroe twp international CB
radio - it email information even uses "channels." Type something on your computer and
it's instantly echoed around the world to whoever happens to be on the
same channel with you.
You can join in existing public group chats or
set up your own. email hosting monroe twp You can even create a private channel for yourself
and as few as one or two other people.
And just like email friend on a CB radio,
you can give yourself a email spain unique "handle" or nickname.
IRC currently links host systems email information in 20 different countries, from
Australia to Hong Kong to Israel. Unfortunately, it's like telnet --
either your site has it or it doesn't. If your host system does email friend have it,
Just type
email friend
irc
and hit enter. You'll get something like this:
*** Connecting to port 6667 of server world.std.com
*** Welcome to the Internet Relay Network, adamg
*** Your host is world.std.com, running version 2.7.1e+4
*** You have new mail.
*** If you have email spain not already done so, please read the new user information with
+/HELP NEWUSER
*** This server was created Sat Apr 18 1992 at 16:27:02 EDT
*** There are 364 users on 140 servers
*** 45 users have connection to the twilight zone
*** There are 124 channels.
*** I have 1 clients and 3 servers
MOTD - world.std.com Message of the Day -
MOTD - Be careful out there...
MOTD -
MOTD - ->Spike
* End of /MOTD command.
email information
23:13 [1] adamg [Mail: 32] * type /help for help
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You are now in channel 0, the "null" channel, in which you can look
up various help files, but not much else. As you can see, IRC takes over
your entire screen. The top of the screen is where messages will
appear. The last line is where you type IRC commands and messages. All
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