Title:				RIPMAIM [Rich's Programmably Modular AIM]
Author:				Rich W.
Date:				11-15-02
Website:			http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/
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INTERFACE
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On the interface you have a "buddy list" window on the left, a text box
at the bottom where you will enter all of your input, and most of the
window is taken up by the html display. All messages (in and out),
status reports, and everything else will go into the html display. The
buddy list box is multi-select, and whoever you have selected when
you type a message in is who will receive said message.

Under the File menu, there are entries to open the Config and BLEED
(Buddy List Entry Editor) windows. You can use those to set up your
account, servers, your buddy list, and other misc. options.

GENERAL
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This is a fairly straight-forward AIM client. It's not very user friendly
and it is lacking a number of features supported in other AIM clients.
The main advantages are the true HTML display (well, if you're talking
to someone else who has it, and you both know how to use HTML) and of
course the plugin stuff. Plugins can be easily created using the SDK
available on the web site, and the .dll files can the be dropped into
your "module" directory, where they will be loaded automatically.

Plugins can add new commands, perform tasks on certain events, and a
number of many other things. However, there are some hardcoded commands
in the client which are not plugin-oriented. To issue a command just type
in a / and the command after it (irc-style). Hardcoded commands are:

/clear - Clears the current buffer.

/mclear # - Automatically clear the buffer every # bytes.

/savebuffer <file> - Saves the contents of the buffer to the file you
specify.

/away <message> - Sets your AIM away status. Use /away with no arguments
to register yourself as back again.

The user_block.dll module allows you to block and unblock users as well.
Commands for it are:

/block <name> - Blocks specified user.

/unblock <name> - Unblocks specified user.

/blocklist - Lists all the users you have blocked.

The user_chat.dll plugin module that comes with the client is a just a
"placeholder" chat module. It will auto-respond to chat invitations
informing the person who issued the invite that your client does not
support chat. Anyone who wants to can quite easily write a plugin
module that does chat properly, so feel free to if you're inclined.



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