A command line chat application that works with a set of computers on the same network. In addition to messaging, users can set usernames, join chat rooms, and see when new users join or leave a chat.

To run the chat application, the server and clients need to be on the same network.

The command to run the chat server is:

.\server

The command connect to the client is:

.\client [ip-address-of-server-computer]

To compile the server and client scripts, run the following command:

gcc -Wall telnet_server.c -o server

gcc -Wall client.c -o client -pthread

• Ashley Swanson
• Sherrie Shen
• Nathan Shuster

Because the code for connecting is highly similar across most programs, there are parts of our project--in particular the socket code--that were copied from some of the below sources due to being standard procedure.

• TCP server client implementation (geeksforgeeks)

• Multiple client without multi-threading (geeksforgeeks)

• Simple two way chat with multi-threading

• Socket programming (geeksforgeeks)