Ari's Yahoo Client v1.10 ------------------------ This is a simple Yahoo Messenger client that requires no windowing system, and it therefore can be quite useful in situations where a minimal system is being used or when a windowing system is otherwise unavailable or unfeasible. Ari's Yahoo Client is copyright (C) 2000 Ari Johnson, and this software is protected by the GNU General Public License, which should have been distributed along with this software as the file 'COPYING'. If you need to contact the developer, please e-mail him at: ari@lusis.org If you modify or improve this software, be sure to notify the developer. Yahoo Pager interface provided by yahoolib, as distributed with GTKYahoo. To make the development process go quicker and to remove GTK and autoconf dependencies in yahoolib.c, two #includes (for gtk/gtk.h and config.h) were removed and all calls to snprintf were changed to work with sprintf. Compiling Ari's Yahoo Client ---------------------------- To compile the program, you must first run the 'configure' script included with it. It works just like any other GNU autoconf-created script to ensure that you have all the necessary software to make Ari's Yahoo Client work. Just go to the directory it was unpacked in, run the configure script ('./configure' should work), and then run 'make' and perhaps a 'make install' if you so desire. Since version 1.10, ./configure has allowed the user to disable the curses interface at compile time. Use './configure --help' to find out more about this option. Using Ari's Yahoo Client ------------------------ The program is run like: ari-yahoo [ []] where is your Yahoo! ID and is the password for your Yahoo! account. You will be prompted for these if they are not given on the command line. You will then be logged into Yahoo! Messenger and be presented with the Ari's Yahoo Client interface, curses- based or not according to how you configured the client. Commands begin with a forward slash ('/'), and anything that you type which does not begin with a forward slash is sent as a message to the current target, if one has been selected. Use the '/help' command to get a list of available commands. Thank you for selecting Ari's Yahoo Client. I hope that you find it useful.