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If you have any other Real Time Chat
Sites,
IRCs, MUDs, MOOs or anything of the sort; or any problems with any of
these sites, do not hesitate to mail me with your
comments/suggestions. When you mail me with problems, please
try to be as specific as possible.
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Thank You very much--J. W.
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Netscape Users: if you get an "Application not found Error", you must
configure your Telnet Application. Under "Options"-Click on "Preferences",
then go to "News and Telnet Apps". In that folder there will be a text field
labeled "Telnet Application". In that field enter the location (path) of
your Telnet Application. (e.g. c:\netscape\apps\telnet.exe). Your Internet
Service Provider should have supplied a Telnet App. with the service, if
not download one from one of these sites:
http://www.shareware.com
ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l
http://www.enterprise.net/cwsapps/
http://www.tucows.com/
http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/software.html (For Macintoshs Only)
WebTV Users: I've had a few requests about how WebTV users can't seem to be able to
chat to others using the telnet rooms. The answer is simple-Telnet is not supported
by WebTV. I'm don't know the exact techie reason why, but this is what I got from
the WebTV site:
Q: Does WebTV support telnet?
A: No. WebTV does not support telnet since WebTV systems are
For the verbatim quote of the above go here
consumer devices and are not designed or intended to function
as personal computers.
If you would like to create a newsgroup or virtual community
of users through your Web site and wish to make it accessible
to WebTV users, you may want to consider creating HTML or
IRC chat, both of which are supported by WebTV.
IRC FAQ (sort of...): IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, and it's a different way of
chatting, from what I have here on this page. You need a
client (the piece of software that makes IRC run), and then using that
client you have to be able to connect to a server, which is a node to a
network. It's
not as hard or as techinical, as it sounds, and it is quite fun. The major difference
between the chat pages I have on here and IRC, is that it is divided into units
called channels. Each channel is based on a subject. That is if you're interested in
talking about Linux or Bondage, you would just look at the list of channels until
you saw one (or many) which matched the topic which you want to chat about. Any
subject imaginable is available on the major networks. More Differences-you can
chat on the open channel (as you do here) or you can talk to them privately, while
still being on the channel or channels (yes you can be on as many channels as you
want simultaneously). You can talk to many people simulteaneuosly as well. You
can even talk to them, via DCC (direct client communication), where you bypass the
server completely, and talk directly through each others clients. DCC is also the way, by which you can transfer files from
one person to another. There's a few security issues, but they're best handled by
the page I received a lot of my resources from the
page listed below. IRC really is a great
(and sometimes addictive) form of chatting.
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