Squawk Chat

Squawk is a text and voice chat program geared towards gamers.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Jay Dolan
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://jdolan.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/Squawk

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Squawk Chat Description

Squawk is a text and voice chat program geared towards gamers. Squawk is a text and voice chat program geared towards gamers. Squawk Chat project uses the Speex codec for voice audio compression, ALSA for sound input and output, and GNU/ncurses to provide a simple text interface.It is my hope that Squawk will eventually provide a Free alternative to Teamspeak and Ventrilo.There are currently no releases for this project, but nightly svn snapshots are available from the download section.Installation:On GNU/Linux, make sure that Speex, ncurses, and ALSA are installed and type 'sudo make install' in the source directory.Running:The Squawk server is called squawkd. You or one of your friends must runthe server, or you must find a public server, in order to be able to chat.To start the server, simply run squawkd.The Squawk client is called squawk. Run squawk, and type /connect some.hostin order to connect to a server. Once connected, some IRC-esque commands willallow you to list, join, and part various channels on the server:/connect - Connect to the specified server address. May be canonical name ora numeric IP address/disconnect - Disconnect from the current server./list - List channels currently on the server. Channels you are already inwill appear with an asterisk (*)./join - Join the specified channel. The channel is automatically created onthe server if it does not yet exist./part - Part the specified channel. Others in the channel see that you have left./quit - Disconnect from the server and quit squawk.Alt-< and Alt-> cycle through the channels you are currently in, so that you may maintain several conversations at once. Note that you will only ever hearone channel at a time.


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