Re: Anyone out there using ICQ ???

[Shawn Mattingly <smattin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I heard it leaks memory like a seive...something like 4Mb every 15 minutes.

Shawn

Bruce Smith wrote:

> > I have a colleugue who would like to get in touch with some friends via
> > ICQ....We need to use ICQ to resolve email addresses, etc.
> >
> > If you have a working ICQ installation, please let me know and we can
> > supply details.
>
> Are you talking about ICQ on Linux, or ICQ on Windoze?
>
> Assuming Linux, since this is a Linux mailing list . . .   :{)
> I was wondering myself if ICQ even ran on Linux, since I'd heard
> before that it's Windoze only software.  I went to one of the main
> ICQ web pages, and they only had software for Windoze.  :(
>
> Then I was off to dejanews power search.  Filtering in only the Linux
> newsgroups, and searching for ICQ, I learned that the Java version of
> ICQ runs on Linux.  Here is an article that explains how to get ICQ
> on Linux working:  http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=339056758
> There is other useful info about Linux-ICQ on dejanews also.
>
> I've never run ICQ personally, but I hope this helps!
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> --------------------------------------------



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