Well, I guess I don't get the distinction between "sci-fi" and "science fiction" any more than I would see a diff between Hi-fi and "high fidelity", thought I suppose one could be a "stereo" and the other is "good sound". (So, the shorter one can be "nouned"? Don't think that applies here!)

To those who are wondering why,
What we call 'SF' ain't 'sci-fi',
It's just, there's a fine line,
Between Robert Heinlein,
And 'Son of the two-headed fly'.

Does anyone know of any Unix app that simulated the buddy list's display of who's on line or not?

I have dim memories of a program called "Merlin's Buddies" (or possibly "Merlin's Buds") from around about 1993 or thereabouts.

A brief web search doesn't turn it up, but my access if pretty slow at the moment which doesn't help.

Anyone else remember this piece of software?

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