Naken Chat

Installing Naken Chat on MacOSX should be fairly easy. On the download page download file under the heading MacOSX (should be called something like nakenchat-2.03-macosx.tar.gz). If you're using Safari for your web browser, it will automatically untar it into a folder called nakenchat-2.03. Inside this folder you may double click on the nakenchat.conf file to configure the server's features how you want them. Click here for information on the nakenchat.conf parameters.

To start or stop the chat I have created a small Applescript program called "nakenchat_control". Just double click on this icon. The start button starts the chat and the stop button will kill it. Note: I have written and tested this script on MacOSX 10.3. I'm not sure how it works on any other version of MacOSX. If you have problems with this program please let me know so I can fix it. If you don't want to use the GUI to start Naken Chat, read the Unix install page for information on how to start it from an Apple Terminal.

After logging in, there are many commands you can test out. All commands start with a . (or optionally / works also). Sysop commands are all capital letters and normal user commands are all lowercase. Click here for a list of Naken Chat sysop and normal user commands.

If something isn't quite clear, feel free to email me and let me know so I can change this doc file. It's hard to write simple, easy to understand documentation, plus there are many features in the chat that I'm probably forgetting while I'm writing this file.