Chris Nestrud wrote: > Try looking into jabber I have looked into Jabber quite a bit already. The sjabber client you mentioned appears to be written for group-chat only, and not for general instant-message functions. There is another more general-purpose console Jabber client. This one is called JabberX, and the Web site is at: http://jabber-x.sourceforge.net/ This client currently lacks a decent line-input routine that includes the usual editing features and properly clears the input area once the user has pressed enter. I have looked for re-usable solutions to this problem, and every ncurses-based program implements its own input routine, so it's not a matter of just using functions in a standard library. The next thing that JabberX needs is the ability to register new accounts and register with the various transports (ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger Service, etc.). Another possibility is EJab, a Jabber client for Emacs. The Web site for that is at: http://ejab.sourceforge.net/ -- Web site: http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/
