There are multiple different commonly used chat systems in the packet world. Here is a summary of some of them.

BPQ Chat is a Networked Converse/Chat server for the BPQ32 system. It supports a number of separate chat channels or “chatrooms”, called topics. Users initially are connected to topic “General”, but may move to other topics, or create new ones if desired. Internally it operates in the UTF-8 character encoding, allowing use of different languages. Output is also normally in UTF-8, but if a user is connecting using a terminal that only supports 8 bit character sets he can turn off UTF-8 output, and select which Code Page he wishes to use. The Chat server can accept a parameter from the Node to specify the Topic that the user wants to connect to. So a user could enter “CHAT Mytopic” to connect to Chat and select topic “Mytopic”. You can configure an Application Alias to allow users to connect directly to a specific topic, eg

• APPLICATION 2,CHAT,,GM8BPQ-4,BPQCHT,255
• APPLICATION 3,MYCHAT,CHAT MyTopic,GM8BPQ-14,MYCHAT

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