MICQ
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- The title of this article is incorrect because of technical limitations. The correct title is mICQ.
mICQ is a free text-based ICQ instant messaging application that runs on a wide variety of platforms, including AmigaOS, BeOS, Windows either using Cygwin or MinGW, OS X, NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD, the Sharp Zaurus and of course Linux and most commercial Unices including Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.
mICQ has many of the features the official client has. Due to its command line interface, it has a good usability for blind users through text-to-speech interfaces or Braille devices. It is leading in its support for sending and receiving acknowledged and non-acknowledged unicode encoded messages (it even understands UTF-8 messages for message types the ICQ protocol does not use them for) and its support for client detection.
It has support for SSL-encrypted direct connection compatible with licq and SIM. It is also correctly internationalized; German, English and other translations are available. It is also capable of running several UINs at the same time and is very configurable (e.g. different colors for incoming messages from different contacts or to different (own) UINs).
Another interesting feature of mICQ, which naturally isn't available in the official client (http://www.icq.com), is to be able to detect contacts who set their status to invisible and thus appear as offline.
mICQ is licensed under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License; recently relicensed to include the OpenSSL exception. Versions prior to micq 0.4.8 were released by Matt D. Smith into the public domain; however, not much of the original code remains. All later additions were by Rüdiger Kuhlmann, in particular the support for the current ICQ v8 protocol.
See also
External links
- mICQ home page (http://www.micq.org)
- ICQ protocol page (http://www.micq.org/ICQ-OSCAR-Protocol-v7-v8-v9/)
- official ICQ home page (http://www.icq.com)de:MICQ