Small Telnet Chat For Linux

Small Telnet Chat provides a chat server to which you can connect via a telnet client.

Small Telnet Chat (STC) is a chat server to which you can connect via a telnet client. It provides logging, automatic kicking, and IP blocking.

Requirements

Server: All you need are the files of the chatserver and a functional JRE.

Client: To connect to the server you need at VT100 capable telnet client. Simple telnet to a server on which the STC is running. (You need to know the port on which the server is listening since STC can run on any port).

STC is known to work with: -> PuTTY works fine -> Win2000 telnet works -> WinXP telnet works (some versions of WinXP telnet seem to have problems but up to date ones (with service packs, etc.) work) -> Linux telnet (netkit) works

Installation

No special installation procedure is required. Simply unpack the archive into a directory and run it.

The configuration file (config.xml) has to be in the same directory as the server.

For those who want to put the server to place where executables usually reside (/usr/local/bin, etc.), a .jar file is provided.

Running

To run the chatserver, cd into the directory into which you have copied the files.

Run the server by typing: java stc