[7069] in SIPB bug reports
TOC clients (AIM implementations)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy C Daniel)
Wed Dec 9 20:28:42 1998
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: fyfer@MIT.EDU, fastcart@MIT.EDU, jmorzins@MIT.EDU, gutnik@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 12:03:38 EST
From: Jeremy C Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
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** I'm sending this to just bug-sipb (for now) because I would like
** people to bang on it slightly before I send it to software-announce
** (especially since this is my first install in the sipb locker).
** Since this didn't involve any compiled binaries the document about
** how to install things didn't seem to entirely apply, so I did what
** seemed best to me at the time. If anybody has suggestions for
** things I should change please let me know.
**
** Also should I go through the effort of changing defaults to not
** include the stock feature in everyone's default buddy list?
**
** jacob: you're on the cc because you maintain exmh, and I was
** wondering if there were any tcl issues I should be aware of
**
** others: people I think might use and might be able to give me
** feedback
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This message, and my install notes are available as
/mit/sipb/share/tik/README I'm adding things to it as I go if they're
of interest.
AIM is AOL Instant Message software (http://www.aim.aol.com/). The
TOC protocol is a high level abstraction of the OSCAR protocol used by
AIM. The license on the java version of AIM did not allow it to be
installed, but the license for the TOC protocol is much less stringent.
> AOL grants you ("Licensee") a non-exclusive, royalty free, license
> to use, modify and redistribute this software in source and binary
> code form, provided that i) this copyright notice and license appear
> on all copies of the software; and ii) Licensee does not utilize the
> software in a manner which is disparaging to AOL.
I've installed and tested (but only superficially) three clients for
it. Each has the full message-sending functionality of AIM.
TiK is a pure Tcl/Tk 8.0 version of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). TiK
now has most of the features the native Windows and Macintosh clients
have, plus some extras.
athena% add sipb; tik
Tac is a pure Tcl terminal only version of AOL Instant Messenger. Tac
doesn't require Tk or a X display, and can be run on most terminals
with no problem. However since it is put Tcl, and doesn't even use
curses, line editing is limited. Currently some features are missing
from Tac, when compared to TiK, but it will hopefully catch up at some
point.
athena% add sipb; tac
[linux already has a program called tac so you might want to add -f sipb]
Using TNT, you can, from the comfort of your Emacs window, check
whether friends and coworkers are online, send them "instant
messages", and join them in multi-party private chat sessions. Unlike
the official AIM clients, TNT is designed to be functional rather than
pretty, easy to use rather than easy to learn. It doesn't have a
graphical user interface, fancy artwork, or other random fluff.
Instead, like other emacs extensions, it has a keyboard-driven,
text-based interface. TNT is AIM for grownups ;-).
;; insert this line into your .emacs file (and make sure you have
;; the sipb locker attached)
(load "/mit/sipb/share/elisp/tnt.el")
The starting page for all of these is http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/ and
a fairly extensive (but I think still in progress) FAQ can be found at
http://bacon.tcs.tufts.edu/~dkap/brain/TicToc_FAQ.shtml
I am intend to keep up with announcements of new releases of the above
software and will install them as they become available.
Someone's working on a perl package which I might install later if
people bug me...
Jer
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