[343] in Software_Announce
Re: micq in the sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey L Goodell)
Sat Mar 4 01:56:39 2000
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 01:55:02 -0500
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>, software-announce@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: Geoffrey L Goodell <goodell@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sit@MIT.EDU, aatharuv@MIT.EDU, hoeteck@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200003040650.BAA24109@hodge-podge.mit.edu>
yeah, i installed licq for i386_linux3 in the outland locker, but i have
been having lots of trouble getting it to work properly under solaris.
there seem to be "issues." i will hack on it more, if we still think that
this is a good idea.
/geoff
At 01:50 04/03/00 -0500, Camilla R Fox wrote:
>
>Micq is a free clone of the Mirabilis ICQ program. It's text based,
>and uses ansi color codes to be gaudy, if your terminal allows it.
>There isn't any terribly useful documentation, but it prompts you for
>stuff when you run it the first time, and /help from inside it is
>fairly useful. It dumps info in ~/.micqrc, and it'll deal with making
>you an ID, when you run it without a config file.
>
>It builds without problems for all platforms, but I haven't done more
>than fairly cursory testing.
>
>-Camilla
>
