[15550] in SIPB bug reports
Re: micq?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Aug 20 14:35:31 2004
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To: Ron Hoffmann <hoffmann@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: micq?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:06:53 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:35:27 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> I hadn't used the Solaris micq client (sipb locker) in a while and
> trying
> recently I see the following behavior:
>
> % micq
> Matt's ICQ clone compiled on 21:28:00 Mar 4 2000
> Version 0.4.3 now with increased network stability.
> This program was made without any help from Mirabilis or their consent.
> No reverse engineering or decompilation of any Mirabilis code took place
> to make this program.
> Enter password : Using motorola byte ordering.
>
> Discarded a Login packet.
> Connection unstable. Exiting....
> Micq> %
>
> There appear to be much newer releases at micq.org - should this be
> updated?
Indeed, thank you for the reminder. I built version 0.4.11 for
i386_rhel3 and sun4x_59, and released the necessary volumes to make it
live. I left behind the old version for previous Athena releases.
It appears to have a lot going for it, since version 0.4.3, including
localization, supported protocols, autoconf'd build system, and perhaps
it actually works. [SIPB: the README.ATHENA in the src dir describes
the only build problem; I've reported it upstream.]
I'd been neglecting micq because I've long since forgotten the username
and password that I used to test it initially. In light of that, I've
done no more than verify that the right banner comes up; do please let
us know if it doesn't go for you.
-Camilla
