On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:05:57PM -0500, Sean Darby wrote:
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> I have been wanting to switch from a GUI "meta"-type chat (uses Yahoo, AIM, etc.) to terminal/CLI-based. I came across "centericq" (apparently it works with multiple protocols) though when trying to install it I get...
> [...]
> Is there a better program out there somewhere that is CLI-based for using chat with Yahoo, AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC, and Jabber?

Better I don't know, but Bitlbee [0] is an IRC to said IM networks
gateway. You connect to it using your favorite IRC client, lots of which
being console apps, like irssi [1], and it will in turn connect to all
the IM accounts you've set up and show your contacts as if they were in
an IRC chatroom, from which you can query them (or even talk to then
directly by prefixing the message by there nick and a colon).

[0] http://www.bitlbee.org/
[1] http://www.irssi.org/

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