ipchat - Summary

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IPChat is a simple and small ncurses-based chat program, written in C, where you find your contacts using their IP addresses or hostnames (so you can use it with dyn-dns things).

Even though it's meant to be a very lightweight program, it has nice features like colors, terminal window resizing, line editing and recalling of previously written lines.

It mantains a persistent contact list, and it works like an "instant messenger" program in the sense that when a contact connects, you immediatly see that she/he is connected (and she/he sees you).

You have a "window" for every connected contact (like ircII or BitchX windows). On the right of the terminal, you see a list of all contacts (connected or not). That's where you see which contacs are connected, which contacts said something while you're not in their windows, etc. You add contacts with the "/add" command. Other commands exist to modify and remove contacts.

Registration Date: Sat 29 Nov 2003 01:26:53 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta