Hi!

> I compiled naim, an ncurses based Instant Messenger client for hpcmips.  
> It works great on my z50.  I've made the binary available for download:
> 
> http://surfer.ath.cx:8000/hpc
> 
> You need to have ncurses installed for it to work.  The entire ncurses 
> package filled up my little 128MB CF card pretty quickly, so I only copied the
> libraries and the relevant terminfo files (xterm and vt100).  Note that 
> the precompiled ncurses package you download from netbsd.org expects the 
> terminfo database to be located in /usr/pkg/share.
> 
> One thing that's a bit disappointing is the size of the naim executable -- it
> is over 1MB.  Anyone know of a smaller console based IM client?

Last time I checked (linux on mips), binaries were about twice bigger on
mips than on i386. Someone told me it is due to bad dynamic linker.
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Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.