despite my intense efforts to get gaim to work i have failed. I'm behind a firewall and that might just be the problem.

I really need to get MSN to work so I downloaded AMSN. After tar -xvzf ...
I went to the 'msn' directory and did:

[root@raghav msn]# ./amsn
bash: ./amsn: /usr/bin/wish: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

not sure what to do.I'm sure i don't have wish on my machine.
I'm using Redhat 9.0

Please help!!

try installing wish then.

Well after the tar -xzvf step, you need to actually compile the program in most cases.. usually a:

then do a amsn from a prompt if its in your path, which in most cases will probably be installed to /usr/local which by default usually is.

But I would suggest reading the INSTALL and README files in the directory you untarred the package in, which should explain the whole process of installation.

Also I may add, what kind of problems were you having with GAIM, if your behind a firewall, probably not GAIM giving troubles, probably just your firewall blocking you.

I think your right about GAIm
Coming back to AMSN, I know the routine for compiling a program (the one you have mentioned), however there is no configure file. Also the site where i dowloaded suggested to do ./amsn. I guess I'll try and download 'wish' first.

Install Tcl/TK - it will be on your CDs

If Gaim won't work, or you just don't like it try Everybuddy. Both of those programs are far better than aMSN. Trust me.

Ion