An ancient Talker system. The daemon runs on a Unix host, users then use telnet, netcat or some other simplistic client to connect.
For information on what a Talker is, see Wikipedia
This is a historical relic written in 1999 as a learning exercise with no regard to resources, efficiency or security. Do not to run this on an Internet-facing host!
Surprisingly this still actually compiles and runs on Ubuntu 16.04. Make sure you have the libxml2-dev
package installed, then:
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Run
./configure && make
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Run
src/pwot
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Connect to localhost port 7000 with telnet and login as
admin
with the passwordpassword