Color ICB Client

<title> Color ICB Client </title>

<H2> Color ICB Client release 5.1.0 </H2>
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Last Updated: 
Mon Jan  1 16:05:16 EST 2001
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The new color icb client is officially released for the new year. 
You can <a href="http://www.obfuscation.org/icb/cicb-5.1.0.tar.gz"> download it here. </a>
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<ul>
<li>Announcements about new releases (and zero discussion) may be obtained
via the <i>cicb-announce@obfuscation.org</i> mailing list.  Send an empty 
message to <i>cicb-announce-subscribe@obfuscation.org</i> to join. 
<li>Please send patches to the developers mailing list if you find and/or fix any bugs.
<li>Please send problem descriptions to the developers mailing list if you have them, but can't fix them.
<li>Please compile with -g and "backtrace" from gdb if you find coredumps.
<li>Please include your platform and readline, tcl, and operating system versions with bug reports!
<li>Developers mailing list is <i>cicb-workers@obfuscation.org</i>.  Send
an empty message to <i>cicb-workers-subscribe@obfuscation.org</i> to join
on.
<li> read-only anonymous cvs access is available.  CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@bartertown.obfuscation.org:/cvs ; cvs password is "anonymous" ; checkout
module "cicb".
<li> the CVS code might not always compile or work right, naturally. We try
to only commit working code, but if you need a reasonably stable client,
use an actual release.  Appropriate CVS tags are available, or use the
release tarballs. 
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<h3>Current Release Notes:</h3>
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Release notes for cicb 5.1.0

CONFIGURE
=========

	cicb now uses the gnu configure utility to try to figure out
	the correct settings for your system. See the file INSTALL for 
	details on building the executable. See the file README.autoconf
	for information on modifying the configuration process.


COLOR
=====

	you can now change your colors on the fly.  see README.COLOR


TRIGGERS
========

	Having tcl built in is a pretty powerful thing.  Exploit it.
	We can call external programs whenever we want.  We can also
	run specific procedures when interesting things happen.
	this needs to be documented, but it's cool.


ASYNCHRONOUS I/O
================

	For those that like this sort of thing, the client can now display
	messages to you while you're in the middle of typing.  
	Just "/oset asyncread true" to enable this behavior.  Also, whether
	you're displaying async or not, the client can now be busy doing
	things in the background while you're typing


ICB SERVERS
===========

	Most of the icb servers out there have been listed under the
	icb.net domain name, and the west coast primary server (icb.evolve.com)
	wishes everyone to switch to evolve.icb.net.  So, this is the new
	default host, and the icbserverdb file has been updated to reflect
	the new DNS domain.  


TESTED COMPILES AND PLATFORM NOTES
==================================

Known Good Compiles:
FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE            gcc 2.95.2    tcl8.3    readline-4.1
FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE            gcc 2.7.2.1   tcl7.6b1  readline-2.1
FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE             gcc 2.7.2.3   tcl7.6p2  readline-2.2.1
OpenBSD 2.6 (note 1)            gcc 2.95.1    tcl7.6p2  readline-2.2.1
NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 (note 1)      gcc 2.91.66   tcl8.3.2  readline-4.1
Solaris 7                       gcc 2.95.2    tcl8.0    readline-2.2.1
Linux 2.2.14 (Mandrake 7.0)     gcc 2.95.2    tcl8.3    readline-4.0
Linux 2.0.35                    gcc 2.7.2     tcl7.6p2  readline-2.2.1
Irix 6.5.9                      gcc 2.95.2    tcl8.3.2  readline-4.1
FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE             gcc 2.95.2    tcl7.6p2  readline-2.2.1
FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE            gcc 2.7.2.1   tcl7.6p2  readline-2.1
Linux 2.2.12-20 (rh6.1)         gcc 2.91.66   tcl8.0 from rpm and default readline
Irix 6.5                        MIPSpro 7.2   tcl8.0.5  readline-2.2.1

Note 1:	 NetBSD and OpenBSD both ship with a readline that almost works,
but lacks history headers.  Do yourself a favor and install the full
readline package. 


KNOWN BUGS
==========

When using readline 2.x, SIGWINCH is not handled properly.  If you run into
screen redraw problems when changing window sizes, try using readline 4.x
instead.


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