[24956] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Replacing tik an tac with wrapper scripts suggesting the use of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A. Tharuvai)
Thu Sep 22 16:24:02 2005
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From: "Arun A. Tharuvai" <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Replacing tik an tac with wrapper scripts suggesting the use of
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Done. tik and tac will start suggesting the use of gaim or owl starting
4amish tomorrow morning when the read-only sipb locker gets updated agin.
Arun
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Arun A. Tharuvai wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the past few weeks, AOL disabled the TOC protocol used by tik, tac,
> and some other third-party AIM clients, causing at least one question to
> sipb@mit.edu, and probably even more user confusion.
>
> Given that tik and tac (the AOL one that is), are installed in the sipb
> locker, maybe it's worth it to replace them with wrapper scripts
> suggesting that gaim or owl be used instead?
>
> I replaced the im locker version of these programs (installed as
> tac-0.90 and tik-0.17 respectively) with appropriate wrapper scripts,
> viewable at:
>
> /mit/im/arch/share/bin/{tac-0.90,tik-0.17}
>
> If no one has any objections, I'll replace the sipb locker tik and tac
> with these wrapper scripts by Sunday or Monday.
>
> Arun
>
