Re: Text based synchronous communication tool for Linux?

Nicolas George wrote:

Geoff Clare , dans le message
<at8j2l-elf.ln1@ID-313840.user.individual.net>, a écrit :

"Even" MacOS?  It's required for UNIX® conformance - if MacOS didn't
have talk, it wouldn't be able to be certified as UNIX.

 
Or they would have paid a little more money and that requirement would have
been discarded.

Not sure if you're just being flippant or you genuinely believe that
would be possible.  If the latter, then you clearly know very little
about the POSIX/UNIX standards development process.  It takes a decade
or two to remove an interface from the standard, as it first needs to be
marked obsolescent (to give application writers advance notice to start
phasing out its use).  Take for example the tempnam() function: mandatory
for UNIX in SUSv3 (2001), marked obsolescent (but still mandatory) in
SUSv4 (2008), removed in SUSv5 (2024).

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Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>