* Curphoo, a YMSG-protocol chat client

    http://www.nongnu.org/curphoo/

Personally I don't think YCHT is going down anytime soon, but here it
is anyway a curphoo that uses the YMSG protocol.

* Thanks

Special thanks go to the GAIM people, where I got the Yahoo MD5 login
code from. Nice app guys! I'm a big fan.  Many thanks to the authors
of SWIG. I'm also a big fan of this tool.

(for more info on the applications above see http://freshmeat.net)

gpan (author of cheetachat) for the advice and tips. Thanks G!

IMParcival, couldn't have done this without you dude. Thanks heaps.
waduck.com rules!

Most of all a Big Thank You go to the Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris:1 people
for testing/using curphoo for their comments constructive or otherwise
and for believing in the author (heh.) and for putting up with all my
(heh.)'s which is entirely daryn_lightblade's fault.

* Prerequisites

You need a Python 2.4 series interpretter starting with Curphoo 0.4.0.
Starting with 0.4.0, Curphoo uses a purely Python implementation of
the YMSG authentication protocol.  It also uses new functions found
only Python 2.4's curses module.

Curphoo 0.3.12 continues to work with Python 2.1, 2.2 an 2.3 however,
but you will need a GNU development toolchain and also the headers for
your curses implementation installed.

* Installation 

    1. Unpack the source tarball
    2. cd to the newly made directory
    3. Type make (or gmake on bsd)
    4. Type ./curphoo
    5. Enjoy!

* Usage

In chat hit the TAB key for help, hit Enter for the user list.

* Private Messages

For those that find typing /tell something something something a tad
tedious I've added #<TAB> support. This looks at your last /tell
command string and puts that string on the input box excluding the
actual message.

* Real Yahoo! Buddy Support

In chat type /yb nameofchatter to add that chatter to your Yahoo Buddy
list.  You will be notified when this chatters goes online/offline.
To get a list of which of your yahoo buddies are online type /yb

* Ignores

If you have an old ~/.curphoo/ignorex you would like to convert to
plain text copy pickle2txt.py from the curphoo src directory to
~/.curphoo and run that script from ~/.curphoo.  eg.:

    cp curphoo-0.3.3/pickle2txt.py ~/.curphoo
    cd ~/.curphoo
    python2.x pickle2txt.py
    rm ignorex

* Colors

If you want to modify the colour scheme run curphoo then quit and edit
~/.curphoo/color. The changes will take effect next time you run
curphoo.

Local Variables:
mode: outline
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