jgknight/pork
Container for the legacy AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and IRC TUI client 'pork'
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A Docker image for running the legacy AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and IRC client 'pork' by Ryan McCabe.
This currently uses the pork binary found in the Debian Stretch archives, which was the last Debian release to include it.
File requests and issues on GitHub.
You can run pork by issuing the following
docker run -v /Users/me/porkfiles:/root \
-e AIM_SERVER='aim.chivanet.org' \
-it jgknight/pork:latest
Once it's running, you can issue /help
to see the available commands.
/connect myusername
/away I'm not here!
/buddy add_group Bots
/buddy add smartersmarterchild Bots
/profile Welcome to my Profile, <b>%n!</b>
/msg smartersmarterchild Hello!
Pork supports specifying the following env variables (-e
):
AIM_SERVER
- address of the OSCAR host to connect toAIM_PORT
- port number of the OSCAR host to connect toWhile the original servers are long gone, you can connect to modern AIM servers such as
docker pull jgknight/pork