Short: Ntalk compatible talk, lots of extras Author: owagner@vapor.com (Oliver Wagner) Uploader: polluks sdf lonestar org (Stefan Haubenthal) Type: comm/tcp Version: 2.3 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Kurz: ntalk-kompatibles Talk-System URL: http://www.vapor.com/amtalk/ 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.