Information about TACS (formerly TPP)

The Tampa Advanced Converse Server (TACS) (formerly named Tampa Ping-Pong server) is a multi-user Conference application based on the Ping-Pong conversd, version 3.05, which began its life in the Wampes product.

TACS is compatible with the Converse servers found within xNOS applications (like TNOS), but provides many more features and higher performance.

The last (and current) release of TPP is release 1.14 is the current release. The current development version being beta tested is 1.15b1

TPP can be downloaded from ucsd.edu, sunsite.unc.edu, or here

Documentation is available on the following topics.

• TACS Protocol DRAFT Specification
  The working DRAFT of the TACS Protocol Specification

• TACS 2.00 development notes
  A brief description of the changes being made to TPP to produce TACS release 2.00

• TPP 1.14 release notes
  A short description of the 1.14 release of TPP and its feature set.

• TPP 1.13 release notes
  A short description of the initial release of TPP and its feature set.