Re: New GNOME service ?

[Josh Huber <josh gomoku ronin com>]

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jens Ch. Restemeier wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> I want to tell you about a little MacOS application I found recently.
> It's
> called "Hotline". (If another Mac user knows more about it, please
> correct me.) It implements several services, but with it's own protocol:
> chat, file transfer and messages.
> 
> There are three parts: a "server", a "client" and a "tracker", all three
> are commercial.
I'm not sure if you are aware, but there is already a unix hotline client.
It's a terminal based client that behaves much like an irc client.  I'm in
the middle of learning gnome/gtk and will be starting a GUI version for X.
If/when I make any progress, I'll inform everyone.

The code is GPL for hx & hxd (the unix client/server) and was a clean-room
port.  Still, I'm not sure on the legalness of such a project, but it
seems similar to lesstif and freeqt. (?)

if you're interested, the source can be found at:
http://www.krazynet.com/hx/

The people at Hotline, Inc. are most certainly disappointed about this, so
I think it'd be best if they didn't get lots of email about this.

Josh Huber