[olug] Instant Messages/Chat

Jonathan Warren jonwarren at cox.net
Mon Apr 22 13:34:37 UTC 2002


I think they call it oscar.

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 06:53:28PM -0700, CM Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> Right, there are plugins for ICQ, Yahoo, MS, but I
> don't see one for AOL.  Did they block their protocol
> from being used? 
> 
> I wouldn't put it past them. 
> 
> -Chris 
> 
> 
> --- Jonathan Warren <jonwarren at cox.net> wrote:
> > Gaim has a ton of glugins and buidls from source
> > real nice.
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:32:30PM -0700, CM Miller
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > What type of chat clients do most of the folks on
> > the
> > > list use?  
> > > 
> > > I've tried to ./configure Gabber to no luck.  And
> > I
> > > have been using .tgz files, but it seems that
> > during
> > > the ./configure part, there is always a dependency
> > > issue and so on and so forth.  I go out and get
> > that
> > > file, and then there is another dependency issue. 
> > 
> > > 
> > > The funny thing is that I went out and installed
> > the
> > > Linux AIM rpm and it installed without missing a
> > beat,
> > > but I don't believe that it would work with IRC,
> > > Yahoo, and another other IMs besides  AIM.  
> > > 
> > > So what type of IMs are OLUG folks using on their
> > > Linux machines and is anyone here using Gabber
> > > w/Gnome?  If so could they give me some advise so
> > I
> > > could get that up and runnin'
> > > 
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > -Chris 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and
> > more
> > > http://games.yahoo.com/
> > > 
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