tmsnc - Textbased MSN client for UNIX

tmsnc [-l address] [-i status] [-uv]

tmsnc is a textbased chat client that uses the MSN protocol. The interface is written in the Ncurses library and the SSL part in OpenSSL. This makes the program very portable and it should be able to run on any UNIX-like system.

-l ADDRESS

Login with the specified ADDRESS

-u

Check for updates.

-i STATUS

Set initial presence status to STATUS where STATUS is "online", "away", "brb", "busy", "idle", "phone", "lunch" or "hidden".

-v

Display version information.

Use TAB to switch between the different lists and windows in the interface. To pull down a menu, press enter. To choose one of the menu items, go up and down with the arrow keys and then press enter to execute the command.

To enable translation of outgoing messages using talkfilters, you first have to install libtalkfilters (http://www.dystance.net/software/talkfilters) and re-compile tmsnc. Then you go to the "Actions->Set filter" menu-item. Enter one of the following filter-names: austro, b1ff, brooklyn, chef, cockney, drawl, dubya, fudd, funetak, jethro, jive, kraut, pansy, pirate, postmodern, redneck, valspeak, or warez. You can also disable talkfilters by typing in "none". Now all your outgoing messages will get translated.

Use the arrow keys to choose a contact. Press enter to initialize a conversation. While having a contact selected you can go to the menu and choose Contacts->Set custom nick to give the selected contact a custom nickname. Similarily while having a contact selected you can un-set the custom nickname by choosing the menu-item Contacts->Un-set custom nick

To switch to an open conversation, select the conversation with the arrow keys and press enter. A conversation will be marked green if there are unread messages.

alt-c

Close the current conversation.

alt-<number>

Switch to the conversation represented by <number>. If <number> is 0, the console-window will be activated.

alt-a

Focus on the menu.

alt-s

Focus on the contact list.

alt-x

Focus on the conversation list.

alt-z

Focus on the chat window.

To bring up the prompt to enter a power-command, press ctrl-p.

Available commands:

block all

Block all contacts.

unblock all

Unblock all contacts.

remove all

Remove all contacts. WARNING: This command is not reversable.

whoami

Displays who you are currently logged in as.

export conlist

Write contact-list to a file.

import conlist

Read contact-list from a file.

In order to display your current playing song you have to enable it in ~/.tmsnc/tmsnc.conf first. Uncomment the display_current_song option. TMSNC updates the current playing song every 15 seconds by executing ~/.tmsnc/current_song.sh. The output is sent the song's name.

Look here for sample shell scripts: http://tmsnc.sourcefore.net/csong.html

~/.tmsnc/tmsnc.conf

Configuration file

~/.tmsnc/aliases.conf

Aliases file

~/.tmsnc/logs/

Conversation logs

tmsnc was mainly written by Jonas Broms <sanoix@gmail.com> Tmsnc is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the IR Public Domain License as published by the IR Group; either version 1.6 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

You should have received a copy of the IR Public Domain License along with this program; if not, write to sanoix@gmail.com.