>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hello Friends:
>
>I was wondering if there might possibly be some DOS chat programs that are
>compatible with AOL Instant Messenger. The DOS community already has a
>chat
>program that is compatible with ICQ. The DOS counterpart is called MICQ,
>and this program works fine for me and my internet correspondents whenever
>I
>want to chat with people who are using ICQ, a Window$ program.
>
>I would like to chat also with people who use AOL Instant Messenger. Is
>there any way I can do this with any DOS program that is currently
>available?
>
>If not, does anyone have any reason to believe that it is theoretically
>possible to develop a DOS program that would be compatible for conducting
>chat sessions with people using AOL Instant Messenger? No highly technical
>dissertations please. I am not very experienced in using chat programs.
>Please compose your replies so as to be understandable at the dummy level.
>
>I sure hope some of you folks might have answers.
>
>All the best,
>
>Sam Heywood
>
i think it's possible... you only need to reverse engineer the used
protocol... in fact i somewhere found an open source project that was trying
to do that.. don't know if it was for DOS though.. hmm.. think it was going
to be a Java proggie... but anyway, a programmer could reuse their work on
the protocol, and then it shouldn't be that difficult i guess...
that project was somwhere on www.sourceforge.net don't know the exact site
anymore...
Piwi
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