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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, James Miller wrote:

> 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:
<snip>

Oops.  Missed that part about not hd-installing.  That said, yes, I have
run naim from BL2 ramdisk, too.  I think you would just need to unpack the
Slack package offered at the naim site and copy over the binary to /tmp,
as Steven suggested.  It should run from there (I tried this quite a few
version numbers ago, but naim changes are typcially mostly bug-fixes and
minor enhancements, so I think this would probably still work).

James