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Let's Talk is a multithreaded chat application for Linux that facilitates real-time text-based communication between two users through terminal-to-terminal interaction. This C program utilizes pthreads for concurrent communication via UDP, implementing features such as peer-to-peer communication, effective synchronization, and UDP socket communication.

• Linux machine
• gcc and pthreads installed

• Type make in terminal to compile program
• Type ./s-talk followed by your port number, the other user's hostname, and then their port number.

Example:

  ./s-talk 6000 bills-pc 3000

• The other user will also type ./s-talk followed by their port number, your hostname and then your port number.

Example:

./s-talk 3000 localhost 6000

• To exit the chat, Type ! and press Enter.