Scott and Dean,

Excuse my ignorance (I'm living here between two connections - one where I
can read email and one where I can do everything else and right now I'm on
email so I haven't actually check the instant messaging stuff) but I think
that ICQ is using UDP rather than TCP (since there is no point in having
zillions of connections open at the same time for a few messages). And AFAIK
UDP is not supported on the Mac.

  Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Wallace [mailto:Scott.Wallace at disney.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 5:20 PM
> To: Dean Pu Mao
> Cc: recipient list not shown
> Subject: Re: InstantMessaging alpha release...
>
>
> Dean,
>
> What a terrific thing to be doing!  This will make a qualitative
> difference to the experience of using Squeak, particularly for those
> of us who spend a high percentage of our waking hours in a Squeak
> image.
>
> I got your code, got a registered ICQ number from Mirabalis, and
> already had an AIM identity, so I fired up an image,  filed in your
> code, and executed the precipitating do-it.
>
> However, it was not successful.  I got the "Messaging" window, but
> when I hit the "Connect" button, I quickly fell into a debugger,
> "primitive failed", in Socket.primSocket:connectTo:port:.
>
> Do I perhaps need some custom plug-in, or some custom vm, in order to
> use this stuff successfully?  Or could it be that the debug-notifier
> is the "normal" way of responding to a request to connect to a user
> who is presently offline?
>
> I'm eager to start using this, but for the moment am stuck...
>
>    -- Scott
>
>
> At 5:58 PM -0500 12/23/99, Dean Pu Mao wrote:
> >Some of you here wanted my instant messaging stuff, so here
> it is!  Let
> me
> >know how you like it.  Better yet, send me an instant message how you
> like
> >it!  ICQ and AIM messaging are both supported.  ICQ contact list is
> >supported, but the AIM buddy list is not yet supported.
> You'll need a
> >registered ICQ number from Mirabilis and a registered Screen
> Name from
> >AOL to correctly use my client.
> >
> >Get the changesets here:  http://instantmessaging.swiki.net
> >
> >Dino