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- CLChatGUI
- *********
-
- Welcome to the CLChatGUI, a full-featured GUI client to the
- CLChatSystem for AmiTCP. The CLChatSystem, which is
- originally part of the Connectline BBS package, provides a
- multoi-server, IRC-like chat system with multiple channels, private
- messaging, operator privileges and more.
-
- Within Connectline, also online user and Hydra file transfer
- protocol chat user may join the chat. See the `CLChatServer
- Documentation' for more information about Connectline.
-
- Connecting
- **********
-
- Installation is fairly simply. Simply put the archive contents
- somewhere on your harddisk. Note that you need MUI 2.3 or better!
-
- Before you can use CLChatGUI, you must connect to a chat server
- running CLChatD.
-
- When started, CLChatGUI will prompt you for a server name and a port
- number to connect to.
-
- If you are connected to a LAN, you should ask your network adminstrator
- for both server name and port number.
-
- If you are connected to the Internet, you may try
- pluribus.wupper.de at port 5555, but be warned that the Internet
- link of this machine is temporary and generally down. See ARCnet for
- a good choice of servers to connect to.
-
- You must also specify a Nickname and your Realname. The nickname
- is a kind of username used within the chat system. It may be up to 15
- byte long and must consist of letters, digits and the characters .
- and _. The realname is used for informational purposes only.
-
- Note that the server may reject your connection attempt because the
- entered nickname is invalid or already in use by another chat user.
- Change your nick and retry the connection.
-
- CLChatGUI keeps a history of the last servers you have connected to.
- You may choose from the history by clicking on the popup button right
- from the server name string gadget. The history is saved within the
- configuration file.
-
- Local chat
- **********
-
- If you start the client on a machine running the CLChatServer, it
- will not connect using AmiTCP, but directly link to the chat server to
- reduce overhead.
-
- If you want to avoid this behaviour, e.g. for testing purposes, start
- CLChatGUI with the TCPMode keyword or specify the
- TCPMode tooltype.
-
- Using CLChatGUI
- ***************
-
- After connecting to the chat server, the main window opens. It
- consists of a channel selection gadget, a topic gadget, the main output
- window, your input string gadget and the user operation gadget group.
- It also features a menu bar with several options and shortcuts for
- server commands.
-
- You send text to the chat server by simply entering it in the input
- gadget. Commands are also send to the server by entering them in the
- input gadget. You may want to use the /HELP command to learn about
- available server commands. The input gadget is normally automatically
- activated; if it is not, simply press SPACE to activate it. A
- history of the last 100 lines entered is kept; you may use
- Cursor/UP or Cursor/DOWN for accessing entries in the history.
-
- Changing channels is done by entering a new channel name in the channel
- selection gadget. Note that the server will automatically create a
- channel if it does not exist. Already existing channels may be selected
- with the popup listview right of the channel gadget. The popup button
- has a hidden keyboard shortcut h which opens the channel selection
- listview.
-
- If you have channel operator status, you may change the current
- channel's topic by entering a new one in the topic gadget. The
- contents of this gadget are automatically updated if someone else
- changes the topic.
-
- User operations
- ***************
-
- The user listview displays all users currently logged into the chat
- server and the name of the channel they are currently on. Users with
- channel operator privilege are marked with a @, users with chat
- operator privilege are marked with a ! before the name.
-
- Double clicking on an entry in the user listview requests a /WHOIS
- user command from the server. Pressing the Dialog button opens a
- special so-called dialog window. A dialog window works much like the
- main windows, but every text entered within a dialog window is send
- directly as a private message to the user. Also, any incoming private
- messages from this user are displayed in the dialog window and not the
- main window. If the Auto checkbox is selected, a new dialog window
- is created for the originator of every incoming private message.
-
- If you have channel or chat operator privilege, you may also use the
- OP, DEOP and KICK buttons to perform the requested operation on
- the selected user.
-
- Via the PING button you can request a PING request from the selected
- user. If the user is running the GUI client, too, you will eventually
- receive a reply stating the round-tripe time from you to the remote
- user. This is usefull for TCP connections only.
-
- If you have a TCP connection, you may also use the Send Files option
- to directly send files to the remote user; see FileTransfer for more
- information about this operation.
-
- Setting the AWAY checkmark causes the AWAY message to be printed, and
- every private message to you will automatically respond with Nick is
- away (AWAY message).
-
- Setup
- *****
-
- In the setup window, you may modify several operation attributes.
-
- Autoconnect will cause an automatic connection attempt each time
- the CLChatGUI is started. Setting Auto Reconnect will cause
- automatic reconnect attempts if the connections drops.
-
- File Receive Path specifies the path you want incoming CLFT
- files to go (See FileTransfer.). Setting Auto Receive will start a
- CLFT receive session without prompting you for confirmation.
-
- Max. Number of Lines specifies how many lines of incoming text
- will be stored for the output listview.
-
- You may log all or some of the chat server output to a log file; you may
- individually select Private, Server or normal Text messages to be
- stored in the log file.
-
- The Event Handling checkboxes set the reaction of special events.
- You may set Deiconify to automatically deiconify the application on
- the given event, and DisplayBeep to just have the screen beep.
-
- The message section allows you to specify standard texts send to the
- chat for given operations. The AWAY message is set when you select
- the AWAY checkbox in the main window, the BACK message is send
- when you clear the checkbox. The KICK message is a default kick
- reason if you kick users using the KICK button below the user
- listview.
-
- You may create several different configuration files using the
- Save... and Load... items from the menu bar. If you create
- icons for the configurations, you can start CLChatGUI by simply
- doubly clicking on the configuration icon.
-
- FileTransfer
- ************
-
- If you connect via AmiTCP, you may also use the CLFT protocol to
- directly send files to users linked to the chat network (comparable to
- the IRC `DCC protocol'). Simply select the user you want to send to,
- press the Send files button and a filerequester will open. You can
- also directly drop Workbench icons onto the user listview to have the
- correspondending files to be send to the currently selected user. If
- you have dialog windows open, you may also directly send files by
- dropping Workbench icons onto the dialog window.
-
- When you have selected files, a CLFT request will be send to the
- remote user, and the CLFT sender window will open on your side,
- awaiting a connect from the receiving site. The receiver will then
- eventually connect to you via TCP and grab the files offered to him.
-
- If you receive incoming CLFT requests, a requester will open showing
- you the originator of the request, the number of files to be send and a
- list of the files to be transfered. You may accept or reject the
- request, or you may change to destination directory. Use the
- Setup window to change the default path in which incoming files are
- stored. If you have Auto Receive set, no prompt will appear, but
- receiving will start immediately.
-
- Incoming files are tagged with a filenote designating the originator
- nick and IP address for later identification. If an equally named file
- already exists, the file name is postpended with ".2", ".3" etc.
-
- You may abort file transfers at any time by clicking on the close
- gadget of the receive or send window. All transfers currently waiting
- or in progress will automatically terminate if you quite CLChatGUI.
- Note that you cannot send files to users which are connected via TelNet
- or the Connectline ANSI client.
-
- ARexx commands
- **************
-
- CLChatGUI features an ARexx port. The port name is
- CLCHATCLIENT.nr, with nr starting at 1 and increasing for
- every instance of the program started.
-
- Besides the builtin MUI commands (see the `MUI User Guide'),
- CLChatGUI current features two commands:
-
- SEND TEXT/F
- Sends the given text string as it was entered in the input string
- gadget. Note that you may also send server commands this way.
-
- RECONNECT
- Cause the CLChatGUI to reconnect to the current server.
-
- Server Commands
- ***************
-
- Below is a list of normally available server commands. Don't forget to
- use the /HELP command to learn if your server supports a different
- command set.
-
- * /CHANNEL [name]
- Join or create a channel
-
- * /INFO [name]
- Show all or specific channel
-
- * /WHO
- List users in channel
-
- * /USERS
- List all users in chat. Note that the output from this command is
- silently interpreted by the client and not displayed in the output
- window.
-
- * /USERS S
- List all users in chat together with the servers they are on
-
- * /WHOIS nick
- Show info about user
-
- * /MSG nick msg
- Send private msg to nick
-
- * /NICK [nick]
- View or change your nick
-
- * /ME msg
- Send action string
-
- * /VERSION
- Show server version
-
- * /SERVERS
- Show other servers connected to your local server
-
- Operator only commands:
-
- * /OP nick
- Give operator state to nick
-
- * /DEOP nick
- Remove operator state from nick
-
- * /TOPIC topic
- Set topic of channel
-
- * /KICK nick reason
- Kick nick out of channel
-
- There are also special Chat operator commands which are not visible
- to the normal user or channel operator. Use the /HELP command to
- obtain a list of chat operator commands directly from the server.
-
- ARCnet
- ******
-
- ARCnet, the Amiga Relay Chat Network, is a Internet based
- network of CLChatServers available for public usage. As the time of
- writing, the following servers were connected to the network:
-
- * ramiga.cts.com
-
- * bouldercreek.com
-
- * will.achilles.net
-
- * online.via.nl
-
- * slip35-116.xs4all.nl
-
- * wizard.hip.cam.org
-
- * nverenin.extern.ucsd.edu
-
- * svcrppp27.epix.net
-
- All servers run the CLChatServer on port 5555. Note that some of
- these servers are not available for 24h/day.
-
- Copyright
- *********
-
- The CLChatSystem (CLChatServer, CLChatD , CLChatLink and
- CLChatGUI) is (C) 1994-1995 Oliver Wagner, All Rights Reserved.
-
- The package may be distributed freely as long as all files are
- distributed as a whole archive and are not modified in any way.
-
- CLChatGUI is a MUI application. MUI is (C) 1993-95 Stefan
- Stuntz.
-
- AmiTCP is (C) 1994-1995 NSDI Inc.
-
- Please send bug-reports, suggestions and comments via E-Mail to
- o.wagner@pluribus.wupper.de.
-
- Updates are placed on AmiNet; they can also be downloaded via
- anonymous FTP directly from pluribus.wupper.de. You can also check
- out anonymous FTP at the servers listed in the ARCnet reference if they
- have a better link to your host.
-
- History
- *******
-
- Version 1.7
- * Fixed a bug where small windows caused the the line formatter
- to loop infinitely
-
- * added /SERVERS command to server command menu
-
- * default setting was saved to ENVARC only, so attempting to
- load defaults without quitting caused the old defaults from
- ENV to be read in
-
- Version 2.0
- * added CLFT file transfer capability
-
- * added /USERS S command to server command menu
-
- * miscellaneous internal fixes & cleanup work
-
- * now TCPMode can be used as a workbench icon tooltype, too
-
- Version 2.1
- * scroller now does not jump to the bottom when new entries are
- appended if it not already was there.
-
- * smoothed out removing of lines in the main listview.
-
- * added PING option to test round trip time to another user.
- Note that his works with the GUI client only!
-
- * fixed workbench startup bug: always attempted to load the
- executable itself as a settings file thus ignoring any
- default settings in ENV:.
-
- * added new option Auto Reconnect to automatically attempt
- to reconnect if the server connections breaks down.
-
- * nick changes are now tracked and correspondending dialog
- windows are updated with the new nickname
-
- * changed ping frequency back to 15s to reduce IP load
-
- * miscellaneous internal fixes & cleanup work
-
- Version 2.2 (internal)
- Version 2.3
- * smoothed out scroller handling a bit; will now jump to the
- bottom on window resizes, and will jump as long as no more
- than two lines are scrolled up
-
- * file transfer tasks now run with priority 1 for maximum
- performance
-
- * added better icon created by `NEUMANN'
-
- * minor speedup in listview display hook
-
- * added missing cycle chain for option window
-
- Version 2.4
- * now activating any output window automatically actives the
- correspondending input string gadget
-
- Version 2.5
- * fixed bug with lines > 255 chars to be corrupted upon listview
- insertion
-
- * fixed several types in texts
-
- * now file transfer can be initiated by dropping icons onto a
- dialog window
-
- * will no longer change topic string gadget contents while user
- is editing it
-
- Version 2.6 (internal)
- Version 2.7 (internal)
- Version 2.8
- * changed prefix entries to be more clearly
-
- * fixed several hidden internal race conditions regarding CLFT
- cleanup which could case enf-hits or visits to india
-
- * option window is now a register group
-
- * added CLFT auto receive option
-
- * added logging capability
-
- * added PING and SEND FILE buttons to the user dialog windows
-
- * it is now possible to enter commands in the user dialog
- windows
-
- * added server history feature
-
- * added AWAY feature
-
- * added AWAY, BACK and KICK message configurability
-
- * fixed topic gadget to always update when the window is
- deactivated even if it is the active object
-
- Version 2.9
- * changed "««" within dialog window to "IN"
-
- * fixed various problems with dialog window listview handling
- (no proper flushing, no proper jump-to-bottom)
-
- * now dialog windows will automatically be activated when
- "DIALOG" is select for an user for whom a window already
- exists
-
- * removed AmiTCP dependancy due to time() from net.lib. Now has
- it's own, even faster time() implementation using
- timer.device's GetSysTime()
-
- Index
- *****
-
-
-
- ARCnet ARCnet
- ARexx commands ARexx commands
- Connecting Connecting
- Copyright Copyright
- FileTransfer FileTransfer
- History History
- Local chat Connecting
- Server Commands Server Commands
- Setup Setup
- User operations Using CLChatGUI
- Using CLChatGUI Using CLChatGUI
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