pkgsrc-wip/owl/DESCR

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Owl is a curses-based instant messaging client. Currently it supports
AOL Instant Messenger and the MIT Zephyr protocol. Other instant
messaging protocols are also on the way. The main features of Owl are:
* As a text client it can be run over telnet, rlogin or text ssh sessions
* It is easy to use and can run without a config file
* An optional Perl configuration file can set preferences and format messages
* It has emacs style editing of message
* It has advanced message sorting and filtering capabilities
* There will be future suport for IRC and Jabber