<html> <body> Rick, I apologize for the dual post .. for some bizarre reason I didn't receive the reply so a double thanks is in order. I am set to use bash and don't run a gui desktop. My .bash_profile looks as such; <dl> <dl> <dd># .bash_profile <dd># Get the aliases and functions <dd>if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then <dd> . ~/.bashrc <dd>fi <dd># User specific environment and startup programs <dd>PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin <dd>export PATH <dd>unset USERNAME <dd>alias l="ls -aFxl" <dd>alias lo="logout" <dd>alias lc="ls" <dd>alias h=history <dd>alias rm="rm -f" <dd>cat .greeting </dl> </dl>I do have ncurses installed. <dl> <dl> <dd>[root@somesystem root]# rpm -qa | grep ncurses <dd>ncurses-5.2-26 <dd>[root@somesystem root]# </dl> </dl>Is the problem hiding in my bash profile parameters? Also I use CommNet 32 v 1.05 as VT100 for access. Steve Larsen =========================================== At 03:12 PM 5/11/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Steve Larsen wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hello Install List, I have talkd installed and it seems to run .. but not in a split screen mode. When I type " talk user " and the user replies, we seem to be typing over each others words and no "split screen" shows up. This is not the behavior I remember from using this years ago. Some information on the system is included below. rpm -qa talk* talk-0.17-12 talk-server-0.17-12 ========= netstat -l Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State udp 0 0 *:talk *:* udp 0 0 *:ntalk *:* ========= Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) Kernel 2.4.18-3 on an i686 ========= service talk { disable = no socket_type = dgram wait = yes user = nobody group = tty server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd } My initial thoughts are that this version of talk is too old? Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance.</blockquote> I answered this last week, I think. It depends on several things: do you have ncurses installed and what your "$TERM" environment variable looks like. ncurses allows the funky screen drawing stuff and your TERM says what terminal type you have. If it isn't set to a terminal type that supports direct cursor addressing and the like, it can't do split screen. Under a GUI (e.g. Gnome or KDE) with "echo $TERM" returning "xterm", it works fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. <a href="http://www.vitalstream.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.vitalstream.com</a> - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list@redhat.com <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list" eudora="autourl">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list</a> To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request@redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe</blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> Steve Larsen slarsen@opengearbox.com</body> </html>