Ari's Yahoo Client v1.10
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This is a simple Yahoo Messenger client that requires no windowing system,
and it therefore can be quite useful in situations where a minimal system
is being used or when a windowing system is otherwise unavailable or
unfeasible.

Ari's Yahoo Client is copyright (C) 2000 Ari Johnson, and this software
is protected by the GNU General Public License, which should have been
distributed along with this software as the file 'COPYING'.

If you need to contact the developer, please e-mail him at:
  ari@lusis.org

If you modify or improve this software, be sure to notify the developer.

Yahoo Pager interface provided by yahoolib, as distributed with GTKYahoo.
To make the development process go quicker and to remove GTK and autoconf
dependencies in yahoolib.c, two #includes (for gtk/gtk.h and config.h)
were removed and all calls to snprintf were changed to work with sprintf.



Compiling Ari's Yahoo Client
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To compile the program, you must first run the 'configure' script included
with it.  It works just like any other GNU autoconf-created script to ensure
that you have all the necessary software to make Ari's Yahoo Client work.
Just go to the directory it was unpacked in, run the configure script
('./configure' should work), and then run 'make' and perhaps a 'make install'
if you so desire.

Since version 1.10, ./configure has allowed the user to disable the curses
interface at compile time.  Use './configure --help' to find out more about
this option.


Using Ari's Yahoo Client
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The program is run like:
  ari-yahoo [<username> [<password>]]
where <username> is your Yahoo! ID and <password> is the password for
your Yahoo! account.  You will be prompted for these if they are not
given on the command line.  You will then be logged into Yahoo!
Messenger and be presented with the Ari's Yahoo Client interface, curses-
based or not according to how you configured the client.

Commands begin with a forward slash ('/'), and anything that you type
which does not begin with a forward slash is sent as a message to the
current target, if one has been selected.  Use the '/help' command to
get a list of available commands.




Thank you for selecting Ari's Yahoo Client.  I hope that you find it useful.

