I C B M

Internet Citizens' Band Messenger -- A threaded Perl client for the ICB service


ICBM is a threaded ICB client written in Perl5 which supports a superset of the functionality of CICB (the ICB C Client, the de facto standard ICB client).  This allows ICBM to be readily extended to support many features that CICB does not, and to gracefully do a number of things that CICB does poorly if at all.  (CICB has its own advantages, including a much smaller memory footprint, though.)  The primary purpose of ICBM, however, is as a portable ICB client which can be scripted in Perl instead of in TCL.  While it has become traditional for ICB/ForumNet clients to embed TCL, scripting in TCL via an embedded interpreter imposes many pitfalls and yields many unexpected side effects, TCL being a much more opaque and user-hostile language than Perl.  It is ICBM's intention to far exceed the scripting capabilities of other ICB clients.



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The latest version of ICBM is always available in .tar.gz format here as icbm-current.tar.gz.

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