Boring Chat is a multi-threaded, TUI TCP client/server program for communication between Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD etc. This program was written to scratch the itch to apply my newly gained networking knowledge, thus it's a learning activity, but can be useful too.
Its only external dependency is ncurses, which is available on all major distributions.
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Install ncurses. On Fedora, run:
sudo dnf install ncurses For other distributions, please refer to the appropriate guide.
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Clone the repository: hit the "clone" button above, copy the link, then do:
cd /wherever/on/your/system
git clone [link you copied]
and hit ENTER
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To build the server, type:
make
To run it, type:
./server
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To build the client, type:
make client
To run it, type:
./client [address of machine]
for example:
./client localhost
The above will run correctly if the server is running on the same machine.
There are many ways to contribute:
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come up with interesting server commands
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let user specify the port (currently, it is hardcoded to 9034)
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improve that eye-sore of a UI
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Improve this README file