Centericq is a

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menu- and window-driven

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interface that supports the

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, and

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protocols.

Overview

Centericq allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the

server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features. Known to work in

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online magazines ''ABC Linux'' and ''Linux.cz''. It was recommended in a 2004

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article on console applications, and in a similar article in the Russian magazine

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. Two tutorial articles appeared in the German magazine

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in 2001 and 2004; the latter article appeared in the English version of

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. It was included in a 2002 round-up of ICQ clients in the Russian XAKEP magazine, and in a 2005 round-up review of IRC Clients in

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.Martin Brown (7 September 2005
"Free IRC clients, Choosing the best IRC client for your needs"
,

issue 7, web pages 2-3 The FSM reviewer noted Centericq for its windows-like interface built on top of the usual

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library, which provides much information, but can look cluttered on smaller terminal windows, including the standard 80 by 25 terminal. It found that IRC support was "excellent" due to support for multiple servers and channels and the ease of switching between them in the “windowed” interface. In September 2002, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols found it "the greatest of all console IM clients" due to its "excellent interface and a huge number of features and configuration options" in a category review on

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. In 2005 it was reviewed in

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; despite support for .mac accounts, the reviewer noted "annoying key combos" required to access the menus, because on

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the usual

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assignments of Centericq could not be used. Though he could not access the MSN network, he concluded: "All things considered, I've decided that Centericq is the most stable and intuitive terminal based chat client." In August 2007, the project's (then) website stated that Centericq development was "dead", and that the website would be shut down in November 2007. The site referred users to the ''CenterIM'' fork of the project. The developers of the CenterIM fork applied several security patches and updates. , CenterIM was still in development, with version 4.22.9 released on December 14. Neither CenterICQ nor CenterIM 4 support

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, but support for

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is planned for CenterIM 5."FAQ"
. CenterIM.org. Accessdate 2009.

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CenterIM - CenterICQ fork
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