10-21-2006
Talk is supposed to be a chat program, but I haven't ever seen it work (as you said, even on the same machine). There are no configuration files (atleast to my knowledge).
I don't even know why so many vendors package it as default with the distributions. I even have it on my production Solaris boxes, even though nobody would ever be using it.
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NAME
dcontrol -- Query package and source control files for all Debian distributions
SYNOPSIS
dcontrol [options] package[modifiers] [...]
DESCRIPTION
dcontrol queries a remote database of Debian binary and source package control files. It can be thought of as an apt-cache webservice that
also operates for distributions and architectures different from the local machine.
MODIFIERS
Like apt-cache, packages can be suffixed by modifiers:
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Exact version match
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Query this only architecture. Use @source for source packages, @binary excludes source packages.
/[archive:][suite][/component]
Restrict to archive (debian, debian-backports, debian-security, debian-volatile), suite (always codenames, with the exception of
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OPTIONS
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Add headers showing which distribution the control file is from.
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Print URL queried.
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Show a help message.
-V, --version
Show version information.
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SEE ALSO
apt-cache(1).
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