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by Paul Brown.
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Instant messaging used to be a regular part of my life as a graduate student, although it was via a combination of talk and finger at the time and was primarily a mechanism to recruit a fellow night owl for a 1:00AM run to KingPin Donuts or Top Dog.I'm relatively happy with the Fire multi-protocol instant messaging client on MacOS X, but after discovering nxml-mode for Emacs, I've been in a terminal-centric frame of mind. It turns out that there are a couple of text-based IM clients available for general *NIX platforms: naim and centericq. I'll give centericq a shot and see if I really miss the emoticons.
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