[Cialug] irc proxy

[David Champion]

Interesting... I just installed finch and gave it a try - looks really 
ugly in my putty + screen session...

pork's outline border is also shows up with the wrong characters in that 
env, but it's usable. It looks great in kde4 + konsole + screen from home.

-dc

Jeff Chapin wrote:
> I have been known to use Finch, the text based libpurple application. 
> libpurple is the back end for pidgin, and thus pretty much what ever 
> pidgin supports, there is a text version of it. It even is able to use 
> your .purple config files from pidgin, and import your settigns, 
> screen names, and saved passwords (if you use them).
>
> Jeff Chapin
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM, David Champion 
> <dchampion at visionary.com <mailto:dchampion at visionary.com>> wrote:
>
>     Nathan Stien wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Matthew Nuzum
>         <newz at bearfruit.org <mailto:newz at bearfruit.org>> wrote:
>          
>
>             A couple times a year I wish I could disconnect from IRC
>             and not miss
>             interesting things going on. I've heard of IRC proxies and
>             the way I
>             understand it, they allow your nic to remain connected all
>             the time
>             and your client connects and disconnects from the proxy at
>             will. While
>             disconnected the proxy shows you as away (or something)
>             and when you
>             re-connected you somehow catch-up with what you missed.
>                
>
>
>         I want this for other chat networks too.  AIM/Jabber/etc.
>
>         Like screen(1) for chat.
>          
>
>
>     I use pork as my aim client in a screen session. It works pretty well.
>
>     http://dev.ojnk.net/
>
>     -dc
>
>
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