On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:15:08 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:02:12, Dale Mentzer wrote:
>> On 16 Feb 00 at 2:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> whats aol messenger???? what part of the web have you been sitting on.
>> Gee, thanks. That really raised the general level of content here on
>> the list.
> Dale,
> Sorry, `AIM' will only run on Windows and Mac systems.
> For more info, try this link..... http://www.aol.com/aim/about.html
Howdy Glenn,
It was I, not Dale, who originally posted the question about AOL Instant
Messenger. Thanks for your reply. I checked out the URL. There is also
a Windows CE version of AIM, and it works. My son has installed the CE
version of AIM on his handheld computer. The Windows CE version of ICQ is
very buggy according to my son and his friends. They tried it and had
problems with it. It seems that the CE version of ICQ doesn't like
dynamically assigned IP numbers. I can't personally check it out myself
because my son lives very far from me. Anyone having information on this,
please respond privately, as the subject of Windows CE programs is way
off-topic.
>From what I understand, AIM is just a program developed by AOL to compete
with ICQ. It appears that AIM does just the same kind of thing as ICQ.
A very fine DOS version of ICQ (called MICQ by its author) has been
developed. I use it and it works great. Since we now have a DOS clone
for ICQ, it would of course seem theoretically possible to write a similar
DOS program for AIM. I sure would like to have such a program.
Sam Heywood
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