Category Archives: News

Local Chat 1.3.2 Released

By | April 9, 2019

This release now uses pkg-config to configure the ncurses library. This ensures that wide character support is used across all platforms if it is available. The home page for the project can be found here.

Local Chat 1.3.1 Released

By | April 3, 2019

This is just a bug fix release. The systemd service script has been fixed for the chat unix socket permissions. It used to only allow root to access the socket, now anyone in the users group can access the socket and use lchat. FreeBSD doesn’t seem to have wide character support by default in their… Read More »

Local Chat 1.3 Released

By | March 16, 2019

This release is mostly just an internal rewrite of the client code to keep things more manageable and easier to add features in the future. Along with the rewrites a couple of features were added as well: Unicode is now supported where the terminal supports it. Better input line editing for messages. Home, End, Left… Read More »

Hello world!

By | September 3, 2018

I feel that “Hello World!” is very appropriate here. Over the years with each computer language I learned, the very first thing taught for each language is to display “Hello World!” in one form or fashion. So with the website dedicated to many of my projects, I think it’s an appropriate way to introduce it.… Read More »