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Section: Unix

Added: Mon, Aug 11th 2003 05:31 UTC (5 years, 3 months ago)

Updated: Sun, Jan 18th 2004 00:06 UTC (4 years, 10 months ago)

About:
osdchat allows users to send messages from a console client to the on-screen display on a remote machine. It is similar to 'write', except that the TTY is replaced with X. It uses the xosd library.

Author:
Mike Smelov [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osdchat/
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/osdchat/osdchat-0.1.8.tar.gz?download

Trove categories: [change]
[Environment] Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses, No Input/Output (Daemon), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience] End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Network Environment] IP
[Operating System] POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language] C
[Topic] Communications, Communications :: Chat

Dependencies: [change]
GNU Readline 4.2a (required)
ncurses 5.3 (required)
XOSD 2.1.3 (required)
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Project admins: [change]
» Mike Smelov (Owner)

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Default 0.1.8 18-Jan-2004 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Comments

[»] what about a write(1) listener?
by Michael Shigorin - Nov 25th 2003 02:12:06

Wow, just thought how great it might be to have write messages you've mentioned caught by OSD app. Any ideas? :)

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[»] Re: what about a write(1) listener?
by Mike Smelov - Nov 25th 2003 13:02:42

osdchat can only be used by one user (for now) - so a write listener would be impractical. Besides, the client can read from a pipe, so any simple messages that you want to send can be done by:

echo "message" | cosdchat host

you can setup a shell function (call it write2). Once I start putting in support for multiple users on one system, I will look into implementing your idea. Thank you for your suggestion.

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[»] Re: what about a write(1) listener?
by Michael Shigorin - Nov 25th 2003 22:52:10

Thanks! Will see if it packages well into ALT Linux :-)

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