TOC is an
open protocol for
AIM. It supports about as much as
AOL's
AIM 2.0 client does. For whatever reasons (probably
security),
America Oncrack didn't want to have an
open specification for AIM, so they made a
gateway to the one
Windows and
Mac OS clients use. TOC clients include
gaim,
TiK, and AOL's very own
java client at
http://toc.
oscar.
aol.
com/. AOL
ditched development of the
TOC server, but it is still running and very
functional. The protocol the
official Windows and
Mac OS AIM clients use is called
OSCAR.
See also my writeup under TiK, because TOC and TiK's history are closely integrated (TiK/TOC was advertised as AOL's official UNIX port)
TOC is also a common
abbreviation for
table of contents. There is the "TOC header" on a
CD or
CD-ROM that tells
track location and
size information.