YSM

YSM is a Free, open source (GPL license) console based ICQ client written in the C language. The project was born in the year 2001 when Mirabilis (AOL) introduced a new version of the ICQ protocol.

YSM is a console ICQ client that allows you chat with friends.

Full of humor and interesting features, ysm has an easy to use command line interface which allows faster communication with your contacts and provides many OS dependent comfortable options.

YSM project has been tested to run on Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BeOS, QNX, Irix, SunOS and OS/2.

Here are some key features of "YSM":

￭ consoled based client ￭ ICQ protocol version 7 and 8. ￭ plaintext and encrypted (AES algorithm) message sending. ￭ plaintext and encrypted (AES algorithm) file transfers. ￭ contacts download and upload from/to ICQ servers. ￭ search features. ￭ invisible, visible and ignore lists management. ￭ fingerprinting of remote clients. ￭ sending/receiving of URLs. ￭ sending/receiving of contacts. ￭ OS dependent comfortable options.

What's New in This Release:

￭ Many bugfixes related to random crashes were traced down and fixed. ￭ UIN registration using ysmICQ is no longer possible, as the feature was removed. ￭ Compatiblity issues with CygWin were fixed, as were some issues related to the logging system. ￭ WINALERT support was expanded to other systems with ICONIFY/DECONIFY (tested to run on Mac OS X). ￭ Charset conversion under Win32 was improved, KOI8R users should give it a try. ￭ TAB key behavior was corrected. ￭ Slaves (ICQ users) may now have independent colors assigned. ￭ A language translation was added for CZ