Long:
AmTALK Version 1.5 (11.5.97). List of changes
is included in the archive.
AmTALK is a combined server/client for the Internet TALK
protocol for point-to-point online chatting.
AmTALK has the following highlites:
- fully multithreaded for several talk sessions at once.
- Auto answer facility to accept talk requests and store
incoming messages. Can be triggered manually or by
a user-definable timeout. Optional auto answer
information icon on workbench displaying number
of new and unread messages.
- "Locate" function to locate an AmTALK user on a dynamic
IP address even if you don't know the exact IP number
he is using right now.
- History of last used talk addresses for easy access.
- user configurable sounds for notifying of incoming
talk requests and successfully established talk links.
- Userlist to store frequently used talk partners,
with aliasing for easy talk start and specificable
access privilleges (override auto answer,
refuse/ignore always, locate always etc.)
- Can be started from inetd, or reside resident in
the background, activated by hotkey.
- Supports clipboard Cut & Paste from talk windows.
- Keeps a full log of incoming talk requests.
- nice and friendly GUI to start talks, control
operation and configuration.
- handles incoming talk requests with "wrong" usernames
gracefully.
- keyboard resethandler to gracefully close active talk
requests upon a soft reset.
- works with Miami, AmiTCP and as225r2-derived TCP/IP stacks.
Note that the provided Installer script doesn't work with the old OS 1.3
1.24/1.25 versions of Installer. Please get Installer-43_3.lha from AmiNet
(/util/misc) or from ftp.vapor.com, /pub/misc/Installer-43_3.lha.
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