Re: Anybody heard of TOC or OSCAR protocol (used in AOL Instant Messaging)?

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From: Ciaran Treanor
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00

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"Pls remove .com to reply" wrote:
> 
> There's supposedly a public domain protocol named TOC which is used by
> the AOL Instant Messaging program.  Anybody heard of the protocol?  If
> so, can you point me in the direction of a spec?

[ snipped the major Xpost ]

A quick search on AltaVista spat out the following:
OSCAR - http://delphid.ml.org/faim/protocol/

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