Hermes - the code

This is a work in progress. Kindly report all issues

Installation

The only pre-requisite is to have a recent version of Drracket, then go ahead and launch an instance of Drracket running server.rkt and one or more instances running client.rkt.

Using Hermes

General

The clients can run on the same computer with the server, or you can run the server alone in another compute on the internet. As long as you have the server's public ip address, the port its listening on(must port forward on home network!), and the server allows communication through that port in the firewall you are good to go.

Clients

In the clients follow the prompt to set you up. Type in messages to send to other clients.

Commands

Change color of your messages with /color color. Default is black.
You can list users in chat with /list users.
You can get the count of users with /list count.
If you want to send a message to a particular user, do /whisper username message in chat.
If you want to leave chat, type /quit.

Server

You can stop the server by typing in (stop-server) in the interactive window. It's really important you do this to free up the ports.

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