There’s been a number of new commits that have been pushed on the development branch. It has been some time since I’ve worked on this project so it’s most definitely time to get back onto it. One area that is seriously lacking is documentation but getting this up to date opened an unexpected can of… Read More »
This was supposed to be the announcement for the 1.6 release but unfortunately as soon as it was released a nasty bug that only allowed one user to connect reared its ugly head. So a couple of hot-fix minor releases came out quickly afterwards. The 1.6 release is mostly feature updates to the lchat client.… Read More »
I’ve been doing a lot of clean up behind the scenes and got behind on several things. I never got around to announcing a proper release for 1.5.4 and now I’m releasing 1.5.5. There’s not a lot to note with these releases with the exception that CTRL-R now manually redraws the chat client. This should… Read More »
Local chat 1.5.3 is another bug release. When a client disconnected unexpectedly it caused the lchat daemon to run away using a large amount of the CPU. Now when a client disconnects suddenly it is properly detected and the connection cleaned up as expected. Also with this release there is now a Debian repository available… Read More »
It has been some time since I’ve posted anything to the site but I have been busy behind the scenes. A new bug release, 1.5.2, for lchat is now available. This release is fairly significant in the terms of the project. First a couple small bugs turned out to be pretty substantial so a lot… Read More »
This is a bug fix release Fixed new messages being dropped when scroll buffer is full. Updated documentation about badly behaving bot that don’t read their input. The home page for the project can be found here.
If you’re just joining us, this is the forth article is a series of introductory articles to the command line. We are continuing from the article “Command Line Terminals”. We’ve gone over a lot to get here. Now we’re going to look at the heart of it all, the command line shell. The shell is… Read More »
This release is a more polished version of the software. The lchat client has been given a new status bar. The auto scroll feature can be turned on and off with the CTRL-A key combination. Also the text input has been improved by implementing the delete key and the insert key now toggles the input… Read More »
If you have ever been on the internet at all there is no doubt you’ve come across this flame war at some point. The debate of which is the better Unix text editor, Vi or Emacs. Both of these programs are just about as old as Unix itself and neither is easy to use for… Read More »
If you’re just joining us, this is the third article is a series of introductory articles to the command line. We are continuing from the article “Command Line TTY Devices”. Before we get to the shell, we’re going to have a quick look at the terminal. The terminal itself is nothing more than a user… Read More »