Clisk version 2.0.0 is released! Clisk, the Command-Line Interface
for Skype, is the new name for what was called Skctl, the Skype
Controller.
There is a lot of new stuff since the previous release, version 1.2.6 - so much
stuff in fact, that it surpasses the online manual again. The Release
notes for this version are complete enough to describe most of the new
features though. Some examples of features:
- Call management works on Mac Skype without freezing things when there
is an active conference.
- Contacts named by names more than by Skype IDs, so Clisk and Skype
use the same names,
- Skype IDs still appear just often enough to clarify who is who,
- Command selection from a list if you type too little of a command,
- User selection from a list if you type an ambiguous user name, so
typos don't happen by accident,
- User selection by both name and ID so you don't have to know
everyone's Skype ID,
- A new WhoIs command for getting user profiles,
- Commands to create and manage conferences, including the ability to
dial in an arbitrary phone number.
- New commands for playing, stopping, and even deleting arbitrary
voicemails,
- Commands for adding, deleting, blocking, and unblocking users, and
- A "www" command for going to any of several related web pages
including the Clisk home page.
The help facility is also cleaner and offers more help for many
commands, notably those used to manage calls (answer, hold, resume,
hangup, etc.).
URL: http://www.dlee.org/skype/clisk
The old URL for Skctl will go to the same place for now./
I still maintain a one-way Skype chat for announcements about Clisk,
which are mostly interim release announcements, indications of when
the manual actually catches up with reality, etc. Anyone who wants on
that should email me their Skype ID.
P.S., the slogan for Clisk, in case it needs one, and in addition to
what it actually means, is this: Clisk can replace the click! Don't
blame me if you twist your tongue trying to say that though, it's for
computers to say to us! :-)
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Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org
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"I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."
- Josh Billings, 1818-1885 (in "Solemn Thoughts")
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