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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] noir noir wrote:

> I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would
> work from the console.
>
> I did a Freshmeat and Sourceforge search and came up
> with libyahoo2/ ari-yahoo/ gtmsn messengers where none
> of them are able to connect to the chat server.
>
> I am aware of the fact that MSN and Yahoo! are
> blocking apps and OSs that are not authorized by them
> BUT yet wondering if there's still anything left which
> still works from the console mode!

Centericq works fine with icq/aim/yahoo/msn/jabber/irc from the console,
you *DO* have to read the Makefile carefully to make sure they are all
enabled after building though.

Cheers,

Viktor