AndyChat 3.00 review

AndyChat is a program for chatting to people over various network protocols

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 57K Developer: Andypoo

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AndyChat is a program for chatting to people over various network protocols. It was originally designed as a chat program which can work only on IPX networks. Now it's fast becoming a command line Curses based IRC client which will eventually have all the features of AndyChat v2.xx minus the IPX code, and will have additional features including support for all the Instant Messenger systems I can get my hands on, starting with ICQ, and also several Java/Web chat backends (for users to participate in Yahoo! Web Chats, etc from the console!).

Also, since AndyChat v3.xx is written in Perl, it should be theoretically possible to keep it cross-platform, although good luck in getting it to work on Win.

Requirements:
The following Perl modules are REQUIRED..
Curses:: For the yummy screen layout
Version 1.02 *ONLY*
Version 1.04 and 1.05 do not work with AndyChat
Downloadable from http://www.perl.com/cpan/

Net::IRC For IRC support
Requires 0.70 + patches
Hopefully 0.71 will include the patches I sent to Dennis, so you will not need to get the following files, soon!
Downloadable from http://www.perl.com/cpan/

You will also need the following updated files: http://www.secret.com.au/progs/andychat/Connection.pm
http://www.secret.com.au/progs/andychat/Event.pm

Time::HiRes For high resolution time()
Downloadable from http://www.perl.com/cpan/

Term::ReadKey Non-blocking ReadLine/ReadKey functions
Required only for ICQ support, will be outmoded soon hopefully
Downloadable from http://www.perl.com/cpan/