Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:47:52 +0100 From: Drew Wiggins <drew@multinet-media.com> To: Martin Mactaggart <martinm@visualedge.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ICQ Message-ID: <3805B4D8.43CF4BA6@multinet-media.com> References: <19991015001631.B8361@welearn.com.au> <005a01bf1656$66a85690$a600a8c0@visualedge.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------907E90C06D11A22DC482D04F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "green thread" - well, we know what a thread is. the green part of it comes in part from java's history. The research group that was organized to inplement interactive os's in household appliances was named Green. There's alot of interesting stuff behind Java if that sort of stuff interests you, if not you at least know where the "green" comes from. Martin Mactaggart wrote: > I don't understand if you mean extended chat as in through ICQ, or by > itself... > > You could try the java version of ICQ from mirabillis, I hear it works > well and could tell you more if I'd ever gotten jdk to work on FreeBSD (what > the heck is a "green thread"?)... > > Personally though, my fav UNIX ICQ client is ICQnix, it seems fully > featured. Has a chat feature, for example... > > As far as full featured stand alone chats go, you might try kvIRC (I > think it's included in KDE but can be dl'ed seperately) or mIRC (16 or 32 > bit) using wine (the latter works very well even with older versions of > wine) though for some reason if I run wine and xfsftt at the same time, wine > will fail to start, xfsftt crashes about two minutes later and a little > while after that X is frozen... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> > To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:16 AM > Subject: ICQ > > Does anyone here use ICQ regularly under FreeBSD and have a favourite > program to recommend? > > I need something that will facilitate extended chat, not just send > messages, and I don't have enough ICQ experience or enthusiasm to go > playing with all of the ports. Well, I did start doing that and didn't > like any of them, but I'm way too hard to please. If one program is > known to be worth the effort I'll sweat it out on that one. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message --------------907E90C06D11A22DC482D04F Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="drew.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Drew Wiggins Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="drew.vcf" begin:vcard n:Wiggins;John tel;cell:(806) 786-2764 tel;fax:(806) 472-0858 tel;home:(806) 786-2764 tel;work:(806) 791-9993 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.MultiNet-Media.com/ org:MultiNetMedia;Operations version:2.1 email;internet:drew@multinet-media.com title:IT Director adr;quoted-printable:;;1316 27th Street=0D=0A;Lubbock;TX ;79405;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;15408 fn:Drew Wiggins end:vcard --------------907E90C06D11A22DC482D04F-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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