Re: [9fans] Introducing bsflite, AIM for Plan9

[Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>]

Hmmm ....

Well, that's one less reason not to use plan9!

DaveL.

Claudio Leite wrote:

>Hello!
>
> Yesterday there was a comment about Plan 9 lacking an IM client. This is no
>longer true; for the past few weeks I've been working on porting my client,
>bsflite, from UNIX to Plan 9. So far, thanks to APE this has not been much of
>a problem.
>
> The client is very simple, with a line-based interface reminiscent to a
>shell. It has proven to be quite stable, seeing as how I've used it
>exclusively for the past year and a half, and have "converted" many of my
>friends.
>
> The latest binary is here:
>
> http://mordor.tip9ug.jp/who/bsflite/bsflite-20050112.plan9.gz
>
> also get http://mordor.tip9ug.jp/who/bsflite/README
>
> To use, simply copy the binary to your path. There is no configuration
>needed. In this latest version, I have told it to look for the optional
>configuration/profile/buddy list in $home/lib/bsflite/ (is this a good
>place?). The files are named "config," "profile" and "buddies," respectively.
>Note again that these are optional - view the README for more information.
>
> Previously, the client was meant to be used under vt, but since that doesn't
>support reverse linewrap, the output of the client wasn't as clean as it's
>intended. However, I haven't figured out how to get the terminal dimensions
>for a rio shell window, and thus it's hardcoded to 80x24. The best way to do
>things right now is to run vt, use its resize 80x24 function and quit - the
>terminal will remain at the right size, at which point you can run bsflite
>without any problems.
>
> Many thanks to Nashi from tip9ug.jp for help and for providing an account,
>and to Thomas Miller for the idea of porting to Plan 9.
>
>--Claudio
>
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