On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:32 +0100, Andy Pieters wrote: > Does anyone know of a program that can directly connect a Linux box to > a windoze box so that we can chat? Two IRC clients with a DCC connection? mIRC can do it without needing a server, I haven't looked if XIRC can. Running the "talk" client and server. I think you can run that over the internet without too many dramas, but it's been ages since I played with talk. Various IM systems can do direct peer-to-peer for some connections. You can always run your own server, if you don't like external ones (whether that be an IRC server, Jabber server, or something else). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.