Naim

Naim is a minimalism instant messaging and chat program written by Daniel Reed which supports the protocol (computing) AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Internet Relay Chat, and lily (CMC). Unlike most messaging clients, it is not graphical; it runs from the console using the Ncurses library. naim is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

naim is a multiplatform program. While it is primarily aimed at Unix-like systems (and is in fact distributed with several flavors of BSD and Linux), it can be made to work on a wide variety of systems including Microsoft Windows through the Cygwin project.

=See also=

*List of instant messengers *Comparison of instant messengers

=External Link=

*[http://naim.n.ml.org/ naim homepage] *[http://naim-users.org/ naim users services] *Some naim users have started to maintain a dedicated wiki at http://naimdoc.net