AmTALK 1.4beta ============== 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. History ======= 1.4beta ------- - fixed lame typo in command args -- argument is now called "Inetd", not "Identd". Accepts "Identd" for compatibility, too. - added new version of textview.mcc - fixed about window opening after 30 days even if a keyfile was installed 1.3 --- - fixed crash with OS 2.x due to missing datatypes.library - added new (and 68000 compatible) version of textview.mcc - added new version of term.mcc - fixed screwing of auto answer text under certain circumstances 1.2 --- - changed app preconfig method to avoid initial window close/reopen - sound section in prefs is now disabled when datatypes are not available - fixed bogus display of iconify gadgets - no longer shows a bogus "no alias" error when the talk string is empty and return/talk/talk&locate is pressed - added french catalog 1.1beta ------- - fixed OS 2.x crash (using exec pool functions) - added new textview.mcc/mcp and term.mcc - added reworked catalogs - fixed about text - fixed resetting of tiny font to helvetica/9 even if the tiny font is configured in MUI prefs - used optimizing cat compiler 1.0 --- - first release version 0.44beta -------- - now uses TextView.mcc for auto answer message editing - the talk TCP session socket is now set to SO_KEEPALIVE mode - remote identd lookup is now done when establishing a link, too - status messages are now printed in bold text [0.43 skipped due to revision error] 0.42beta -------- - fixed "Delete" in Auto answer viewer to delete the selected message, instead of a more or less random one - fixed End-Of-Settings line written to Icon's tooltypes 0.41beta -------- - now does a identd lookup on the remote stream socket after a talk is established, displaying the returned username or / in the message. - messages in the auto answer box now have 3 different statii: NEW, UNREAD and READ. - forcefully enables the ARexx port even if it's disabled in MUI prefs. - added preliminary amtalk.text documentation by AdamH. It's written by a canadian, so don't expect too much :-) 0.40beta -------- - didn't send UNKNOWN_REQUEST upon getting a UNKNOWN_REQUEST. Now does. Fixes problems with other clients sending non-standard stuff to talk ports to do tricky things, notably WinTalk. - included new term.mcc which fixes spurious "Please insert Volume : in any drive" and cut&paste errors. 0.39beta -------- - fixed reset handler not notifying "I'm done" and therefore causing a 10 second delay in the reset process. [0.38 skipped due to revision error] 0.37beta -------- - fixed reading of auto answer messages (finally...) - moved "Accept" to the top of the announcewin window to have it more easily reachable with keyboard control (Tab/Enter). - added a hopefully thorough explanation of the locate protocol to this readme, in the hope that someone reads it (Aren't I silly?) - fixed ARexx argument parsing for TTY and LOCATE flag. 0.36beta -------- - added keyboard reset handler. Will close all talk connections with a "*** REMOTE MACHINE REBOOTING ***" - removed all shortcuts from the "Incoming TALK request" requester - "talk to" string gadget now only rejects WSP chars. - fixed display of auto answer messages (was turned upside down) - fixed yet another crash related to AmTALK unable to find it's own path due to inetd startup and screwed PROGDIR:. Happened on prefs save. Will now put up a warning requester in this case, telling users to fix their inetd.conf. 0.35beta --------- - fixed potential crash upon problems with getting the App's icon - aainfo win now has a "Talk" button to start the main UI - changed layout of the "Incoming talk request" requester - talk window now appears relative to mouse pointer position 0.34alpha --------- - AA-Info-Win is now snapshottable - Quit didn't work on inetd-startup - added "Locate always" flag to userlist - added "Locate and Talk" to auto answer list and log window. 0.33alpha --------- - will now raise it's priority itself when being started from inetd with -1. - fixed window ID assignment for the talk window. - now handles edit char exchange correctly. - now dies upon CTRL^C in edit windows. - locate now works, or is supposed to do so :-) 0.32alpha --------- - fixed window list stuffup (removed windows weren't actually removed from the window list, causing all kinds of neat trouble) - removed all otalk support stuff (never used anyway) - fixed loading of Auto-Answer messages. - fixed crash when AmTALK is unable to GetDiskObjectNew() it's icon. NOTE: There is a problem with AmiTCP's inetd not setting PROGDIR: correctly when it starts up demons. Modify your identd.conf so that the line looks like: ntalk dgram udp wait root p:amtalk/amtalk p:amtalk/amtalk identd=1 That is, the full path to AmTALK has to be specified both in the "server name" and the path field of identd.conf, otherwise AmTALK can't locate settings, log, autoanswerstore etc. 0.31alpha --------- - recompiled for new term.mcc 0.29alpha --------- - added locate facility 0.28alpha --------- - will not put up the quit warning requester when started from identd - is a nice daemon and queries the service database for talk and ntalk port numbers - documentation error: you must NOT start otalk sessions via identd 0.27alpha --------- - fixed the as225 interface - it's now possible to start AmTALK via identd so you don't have to run it all the time The entry for AmiTCP is: ntalk dgram udp wait root p:amtalk/amtalk amtalk identd=1 Replace p:amtalk/amtalk with wherever amtalk resides on your system. Make sure you don't have an entry for otalk there! 0.26alpha --------- - when started twice, a "can't create window object" error occured, instead of silently quitting and forcing the other instances to front - fixed crashes when closing the "Auto Answer" setup windows