everybuddy & icq

Bruce Marshall bmarsh
Mon May 17 11:44:26 PDT 2004


On Wednesday 12 February 2003 3:10 am, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> A lot of the students at the local highschool are giving linux a go.
> Since all teens have more to say to each other than a normal day
> permits time, they spend a lot of time chatting on msn, icq and what
> have you. The chat program "everybuddy" works well on msn and aim but
> nothing anyone types on icq gets to the other end. Licq on the other
> hand works as it should. I've talked most of them through downloading
> and compiling/installing  licq and for the most part they are pleased
> with the result.  Does anyone happen to know why there is a problem
> with "everybuddy" and icq?

Never had much luck with 'everybuddy' and never used ICQ, but gain seems 
to work for most everything...  have used it for msn, aim, and icq and 
it worked fine.  You need to load the additional 'modules' in order for 
it to talk to the other protocols...



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