Zinc Y!

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Zinc Y!
Zinc Y! in operation
Latest release	1.1.4 / 30 August 2007
Preview release	1.2pre1 / 25 March 2007
OS	Cross-platform
Platform	Python
Genre	Chat room client
License	GNU General Public License

Zinc Y! is a Yahoo! Messenger chatroom client which runs in a computer terminal window. Zinc originally started out as a fork of Curphoo 0.3.7, though it has been completely rewritten since then.

Zinc is written in Python and uses the curses library. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris. Released under GNU General Public License, Zinc Y! is free software.