From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] AIM software
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:09:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab4dd19f71f1582493bb15342b681f71@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
> Last I checked the protocol hadn't been *officially* released
> by anyone under AOL-TW's umbrella and had been pieced together
> by (perhaps) clever hackers. That being said, what I saw of the protocol
> looked messy enough to inhibit me from writing a client. AIM
> also uses minimal html syntax to mark up the text (fonts, backgrounds,
> and the like), which I feel should be parsed out and trashed.
last i checked gaim was written in c++, which keeps
me from believing it would ever be simple.
as far as i could tell poking around a few weeks ago,
toc has been stable for a while. toc _was_ officially
released a few years ago, though aol goes back
and forth on whether they want to keep supporting it.
next reply other threads:[~2002-11-13 22:09 UTC|newest]
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2002-11-13 22:09 Russ Cox [this message]
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2002-11-14 6:49 Russ Cox
2002-11-13 22:42 Russ Cox
2002-11-13 23:37 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-13 22:17 rog
2002-11-13 21:42 Russ Cox
2002-11-13 22:06 ` Sam
2002-11-13 22:39 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-13 22:55 ` matt
2002-11-13 16:46 Null
2002-11-13 17:22 ` matt
2002-11-13 14:26 Skip Tavakkolian
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