Owl is a curses-based instant messaging client. Currently it supports
AOL Instant Messenger and the MIT Zephyr protocol. Other instant
messaging protocols are also on the way. The main features of Owl are:

 * As a text client it can be run over telnet, rlogin or text ssh sessions
 * It is easy to use and can run without a config file
 * An optional Perl configuration file can set preferences and format messages
 * It has emacs style editing of message
 * It has advanced message sorting and filtering capabilities
 * There will be future suport for IRC and Jabber
