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0.1.1 official alpha released!

This is the first Alpha release of Perl Chat.
All of the known bugs that caused Perl Chat to function utterly and absolutly wrong have been fixed. The end result is this program that suffers only from a performace problem. (Due to the fact that a timer is used to get messages from the server, and this timer takes too long. But this will be fixed soon I hope). Though it has not yet been tested this program should run anywhere perl will run and since there are no longer any Threads this program should run on default installs of Perl. (This means you win32 users should be able to use this very easily).

As a side note, the server seems pretty rock solid right now, aside from the possible threat of malicious attacks against it. But the client still does need some work, especially with the timer as I said before.

Since Client 0.0.8:
added ability to change your personal info
no longer need to edit $host and $port in the perl
program, all configuration is done through the the
configuration file and Edit->Options.
fixed a problem with updating the info from a changed
configuration.
Since 0.1.0:
changed procedure calls from create_gui() to accomodate
for the new algorithm and format.
rewrite of lower level socket code... Now Multiplexes
on the socket connection.
Since 0.0.9:
Added gif to About popup.

Since Server 0.0.8:
Rewrote the lower level socket code. No longer need
Msg.pm nor RPC.pm

Posted by torrance jones 2000-08-23

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