werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) (10/30/90)
I'm interested in finding ways to have a multi-user net-wide discussion forum occassionally and wonder what software is out there to support that and with what kind of limitations. In particular, I heard about "conferences" on BITnet, but can't find anything in my (convoluted) archive-files on that ... I'd suspect that such *REAL-TIME* conference-software does not cope well across network-types, but it might be possible to get the respective parties all on machines on the same network, be that BITnet-hosts or other. thanks, ---Werner ps: multi-user TALK could even be useful if restricted to only one host as participants might be able to login remotely ... ------- werner@cs.utexas.edu / werner@astro.as.utexas.edu / werner@UTA3081.bitnet UUCP: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner OR ...!utastro!werner -------
darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) (11/03/90)
In article <2243@megadon.UUCP> Werner Uhrig writes: > [about looking for a multi-user conference program] > >ps: multi-user TALK could even be useful if restricted to only one host > as participants might be able to login remotely ... > If you have an ANSI compiler check out my Chat program recently posted to alt.sources. It is based on IPC message passing in SVR3 but can be adapted to other schemes. The actual message passing is broken out in order to make it easy to use other schemes. I plan to implement a TLI version and a user has told me that they are planning on writing a pipe version. I am sure a socket version would be simple as well. The user interface is a curses based multi part screen. There is a one line box at the bottom of the screen where you enter commands and text. There is automatic word wrap on text entry. As text is entered it scrolls up onto the larger portion of the screen labelled with your name along with the text from other users. There are channels so that more than one conference can be ongoing at any one time. You can optionally save the session to disk and a few scripts are included to start up based on your preferences. The current version is 1.2. There are fixes and enhancements to come but I think you will find the current package useful. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | D'Arcy Cain Consulting | I support gun control. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | Let's start with the government! + 416 281 6094 |