Alternative to GAIM

[Clive DaSilva]

Chris Aitken wrote:

>Clive DaSilva wrote:
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>>Hmmn Chris
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>>I got a tar.gz file from sourceforge or maybe I was re-directed to
>>Freshmeat. I untarred it and the executable - amsn
>>was right there. Didn't have to compile it or anything.
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>Does this mean it's not really a tar.gz?
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>[root at p166 amsnfls]# file amsn-0_83.tar.gz
>amsn-0_83.tar.gz: HTML document text
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>Chris
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Hello Chris

Not sure how to answer you. I did not run into any of those problems. I 
was able tar -zxvf amsn.whatever.tar.gz to create a directory which 
among other things had a compiled executable - amsn, which is working 
for me right now.

Not sure waht to suggest

Clive

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