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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Gui wrote:

> Gui wrote:
> >
> > Somebody knows if exists some Instant Messenger that 
> > can be used in BL1 or BL2 without hd-installing? 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that GAIM (or is that NAIM?) will run
> from /tmp on BL2.
> 
> I've never done IM myself, but I think James will be 
> able to help you. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
> I think must be NAIM because it comes with cygwin and damnsmalllinux (dsl) 
> a minimalist version of knoppix (50mb only) but, it must be compiled  and I 
> don't know how to do it in a ram-disk..or perhaps is another way to have 
> NAIM working?
> 
> By the way: who's James? How can I connect him for asking him help about 
> this teme?

'Tis I.  The client in question is naim, as you guessed.  Gaim is a
monstrosity requiring a recent version of gtk and other libs/dependencies:  
you'll want to avoid that one.  The author of naim provides a Slack
package (.tgz) on his site: look for "precompiled binaries" to find the
download link.  Last time I tried it, it installed just fine using
installpkg on BL2 (no dependency problems), so I assume it will still
work.  naim does not work under BL1, though.  I tried compiling a version
for BL1, but the attempt failed.  I never worked out what the problem was.  
So, if you want to IM using BL, you must use BL2 (not sure about BL3: naim
requires ncurses, but other than that has few dependencies).  The client
does AIM/TOC protocol, as well as something called "Lilly" and IRC.  
Don't know about Yahoo or MSN protocol - I kind of doubt it works with
those.

James