With the server change, you may have noticed that the Chatterbox clients are mostly, if not all, broken. This will, I suspect, probably be resolved shortly, because I would imagine that www.perlmonks.org will be resolving to 206.170.14.76 shortly.

In the meantime, I went through the code (which I understand only superficially) and changed each instance of www.perlmonks.org to 206.170.14.76 - and lo! A cargo plane dropped off a working getchat.pl and monkchat Perl/Tk client. I thought that I should post this more promptly than carefully, since the problem is immediate. It does seem to me that this sort of configuration information should be gathered together in a .monkchatrc file, to be read and exported as variables by a module. Presently the addresses are spread throughout the sundry files.

I was similarly inspired to look at the some code in a language I don't understand, and write some code for a module I understand poorly. By adding the lines: 

    {
      my @command = ($0,@ARGV);
      $Window->command(?@command?);
    }
    $Window->group($Window);

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to the Tk CB client, I was able to make it produce a WindowMaker Icon. I announce this here because the code is useful, but doubtless no good, and could use fixed by someone who actually understands it. :-)

*sigh* Oh great Cargo Gods... send us a sign! Your servant is calling...

In reply to How I Summoned the Planes by Petruchio

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