ntalk

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Announcement

I'm not working on ntalk from now. It reached functionality level I wanted ntalk to reach. I don't have any good ideas of what could be implemented - my TODO is empty. BUT if you have any wishes or you would like to see some new features in ntalk TELL ME. If I have time/skills to implement them I will do it for sure.

Introduction

Ntalk is a chat application written in C++ and Ncurses library. It works in a client - server model. Ntalk is designed to be easy-to-use and friendly. I started writing it because I don't like unix talk (and other chat clients available on Linux).
Kntalk is a graphical ntalk client written using KDE, The K Desktop Enviroment.

Download

Installation instructions are available inside the packages.
The latest ntalk version is: 0.6.3 (released 7.03.2002)
The latest kntalk version is: 0.3 (released 20.01.2002)

ntalk-0.6.3.tar.gz
ntalk client | 12.4 KB | ChangeLog | Previous versions
This version requires ntalks 0.6 or newer.

Release Notes: 0.6.3 comes with no new functionality. Only error reports were updated to give more information about the problem.

Release Notes: This is quite a big release, major changes. Configurable colors, new commands. Check out the screenshot below.

Bugs

You may have several problems when running ntalk in a terminal emulator under XWindow. That's because some of terminal emulators cannot correctly cooperate with ncurses. If you have a problem running ntalk, try to run it under console. If it works OK under console then try to run it using diffrent terminal emulators. If not, contact me. It works well with rxvt.

Screenshots

Ntalk (0.4.5)	Kntalk (0.3)

Contact

Feel free to send critics, patches, ideas, bug reports.
Words like: "It's great!" are also welcome :)

Krzysztof Czuba
Legnica, Poland
krzysztof.czuba at xl.wp.pl