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Freetalk 0.42
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Freetalk is a console based Jabber client. It features a readline
interface with completion of buddy names, commands, and even ordinary
English words! Freetalk is extensible, configurable, and scriptable
through a Guile interface.

This is an alpha release, so not everything has been polished. However,
Freetalk works fine for basic usage.

Freetalk is distributed under the GNU General Public License,
version 2 or later --- see the file COPYING for details.

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INSTALLATION
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You'll need Loudmouth 1.0, Guile 1.6, readline, and Glib 2.0 to compile
Freetalk.

Get Loudmouth from http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Loudmouth.
Debian users can just install the package libloudmouth1-dev.

You need to compile Loudmouth with SSL support for Freetalk to work.
For more details refer the Loudmouth README.

If you want Freetalk to beep whenever you get a message, you need the
'beep' program, available at http://www.johnath.com/beep/. Again,
Debian users can just install the package 'beep'.

To compile Freetalk, do the standard dance:

$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

The last command must be run as root. For further details about configure, see
the file 'INSTALL' in this directory.

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USING FREETALK
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To start with you can use Freetalk by just running 'freetalk' and
then doing /login to specify your Jabber account and password. To
avoid having to do this every time, you can put your account details
in a file called ~/.freetalk/freetalk.scm. Look at examples/freetalk.scm
to know how to do this.

There is comprehensive documentation in Info format in the doc/ directory,
which you should be able to read by saying,

$ info -f freetalk.info

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MAILING LIST
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If you face any problems compiling or using Freetalk, or if you have any feedback/developer
questions, feel free to post a message to <freetalk-dev@nongnu.org>.

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Vikas Gorur <vikasgp@gmail.com>
Tue Nov  1 12:54:53 IST 2005


