IM: Instant Messaging, which is a technology of allowing one machine to open up a chat window, where one can type in text that is sent to another client.

Some of the Tcl related IM programs include:

• tkabber http://tkabber.jabber.ru/
• tkchat (I guess)
• [Pidgen] (formerly [GAIM]) has a Tcl extension mechanism ( http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev/html/tcl-howto.html )
• tik
• tac
• [ccmsn] http://msn.compucreations.com/
• [MiniTik] http://sourceforge.net/projects/minitik/
• Coccinella http://thecoccinella.org/
• JiMM
• dirc
• aMSN
• XChat

Others, which don't seem to have tcl bindings (not sure why they were listed here at all):

• BitchX-73 http://www.bitchx.com/
• [cIRCus]
• [keirc] http://tedi.heriyanto.net/keirc/index.html
• [OpenVerse Visual Chatz] (maybe)

Can't be found:

• Tcl Yahoo

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