The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a nonprofit organization that oversees the development of standards for products, services, processes and systems in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide. For example, standards make sure that people who own cameras can find the film they need for them anywhere around the globe.
The American National Standards Institute approves standards that are developed by representatives o ...
Information on what features each of the clients support.
Note 1: Plug-in system to add/expand the default features for the application, or protocol. Such as (but not limited to) Trillian chat client - Plugins
Note 2: Third party add-ons which are usually not approved by the author of the application and are usually standalone. Such as (but not limited to) AOL Instant messenger - Third-party add-ons
Note 4: Proprietary; compatible only to itself.
Note 5: ICQ: SSL-encrypt ...
The advent of the curses library with Berkeley Unix created a portable and stable API for which to write TUIs. The ability to talk to various terminal types using the same interfaces led to more widespread use of "visual" Unix programs, which occupied the entire terminal screen instead of using a simple line interface. This can be seen in text editors like vi, mail clients like pine, and web browsers like lynx or w3m.
In addition, the rise in popularity of Linux brought many former MS-DOS users to a Unix-like platform, which has fostered an MS-DOS influence in many TUIs. The program minic ...
CSI 0 ; 6 8 ; "DIR" ; 13 p - This re-assigns the key F10 to send to the keyboard buffer the string "DIR" and ENTER, which in the DOS command line would display the contents of the current directory. (MS-DOS ANSI.SYS only)
CSI 2 J - This clears the screen and locates the cursor to the y,x position 0,0 (upper left corner).
CSI 32 m - This makes text green. Normally the green would be dark, dull green, so you may wish to enable Bold with the code CSI 1 m which would make it bright green. This ca ...
Information on what advanced conferencing features each of the clients support.
= With the Gizmo plugin.
Note 1: MirandaComm plugin allows voice communcation between two Miranda users who have the plugin installed. Only tested with users of ICQ protocol.
Note 2: There is a project called gaim-vv aimed at adding voice and video functionality. At the moment, it's being backported to the main Gaim source tree, and will be an official part of Gaim on version 2.0. [5]
See also:
Information on the instant messaging protocols that each client supports.
Note 1: Plugin available [3]
Note 2: Plugin available
Note 3: Interoperability with proprietary protocols can be achieved using server-side gateways (so-called transports) in Jabber.
Note 4: Plugin available, but requires Skype to be installed.
Note 5: LAN and chat protocols supported for Miranda include NetSend, WinPopup, Nov ...
The operating systems the clients can run on without emulation or compatibility layers.
Note 1: The Mac OS X version must be self compiled, and will only run with an X server and GTK+ installed.
Note 2: Requires ANSI terminal. See e.g. Windows ANSI driver problem on how to load ANSI.SYS.
Note 3: MSN Web Messenger can be used with a compatible browser and valid Microsoft Passport Network account.
Note 4: Numerous talk/ytal ...
