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cognet++: Brian Swetland et al.'s generic proxied hiptop chat client.
Requires cognetd to function.

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1Cognet++ is a series of improvements made to Cognet including:
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3- Smiley support. /emoticons off|on to toggle.
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5- Leigh Klotz's auto reconnect
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7- On reconnect, show the window you were talking on rather than %server
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9- if a new window is created while your in the app, it will display
10 a bubble notification
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12- new messages in any window are indicated by a cog icon in the space
13 where the email notification goes
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15- a new command /marquee <seconds> will allow you to set a window to
16 display a marquee when your not in the application. The seconds paramenter
17 indicates the limit on how often a marquee is displayed. for example /marquee
18 30 will only display 1 marquee every 30 seconds. Messages in between will be
19 dropped. /marquee 0 will disable marquees.
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21- font support. see http://developer.danger.com/wiki/space/fonts for a list
22 of fonts. /font <fontname> is the command.
23
24Enjoy,
25Jake Bordens
26jake@twodot.org
27
28***** Below is the original cognet client README file:
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30Please direct any questions about the cognet client and server to <sachs@uiuc.edu>.
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32Cognet Chat Engine v0.1
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34
35This application is a front-end for a irc proxy server called cognetd.
36The server handles virtually all of the logic and all the client knows
37about is how to display messages in windows and send user commands to
38the server.
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40The server caches all messages even if the client is not connected.
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42The following commands are understood by the client:
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44/query <name> creates a new window named <name> and shows it
45/win <name> switch to window <name> if it exists
46/zap log out of the server
47/bind <number> binds a quickkey (0-9) to this window
48/clear erases the contents of the current window
49 (on the server as well as the client)
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51Any other commands are sent to the server for processing.
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53The application menu lists all active windows (windows with
54messages that have arrived since you were there last are marked
55with an arrow glyph). There are a few handy shortcuts not shown
56in the menu (for space reasons):
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58MENU-n cycle to the next window
59MENU-p cycle to the previous window
60MENU-, jump to a window with new messages
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62Currently, server messages show up in the special "%server" window
63(which you can never delete). Modules running on the server create
64windows of their own.
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66Flags to the side of the display indicate traffic in other windows.
67Indicators like "[3]" mean that there is a new message in a window bound
68to the number in the brackets. A "[?]" indicator means that there are
69new messages in some unbound window (check the menu for details).
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71Protocol Details
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73
74client protocol, server->client:
75 <serial>:<tag>:<source>:<target>:<text>
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77The first field (serial number) may be omitted or ignored. It allows
78for resynchronization, so the client should keep track of the last
79serial number it has seen for when it reconnects
80
81 #:dmsg:nick:#channel:text # display message in target window
82 #:smsg:nick:yournick:text # display message in source window
83 #:dmsg:yournick:nick:text # display message in target window
84 #:dmsg/act:nick:#channel:text # display emote'd message in target window
85 #:clear:window: # erase all lines from window
86 #:info:window:text # display server message
87 #:fail:window:text # display error message
88 #:repl:window:text # display command reply
89 #:sync:token: # client should keep token for next serial
90
91special windows:
92 %server -- messages from the server
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94client protocol, client->server:
95 <serial>:<tag>:<target>:<text>
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97 :serial:serialnumber:token # indicates last serial number and token seen
98 # (send before logging in)
99 :auth:username:password # log in
100
101 In all of these, 'ctxt' is the current window the command
102 was typed in. Lines without a leading '/' get transformed into
103 a send command, all others lose the '/' and are split so that the
104 text between the '/' and the first whitespace become the 'tag',
105 the current window is the 'ctxt', and the rest of the line is the
106 'text'
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