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The TOC protocol, or Talk to OSCAR protocol, was a protocol computing used by some Third-party developer AOL Instant Messenger clients and several clients that AOL produced itself. Sometime near August 19, 2005, AOL discontinued support for the protocol and no longer uses it in any of the instant messaging clients it actively maintains, such as its Windows and Mac clients for the AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ systems. However, it once did produce several of its own TOC clients, including [[TiK and TAC software)|TACsoftwareTAC which are written in Tk, TNT instant messenger TNT which is written in Emacs Lisp programming language, all of which are open source, and a Java client originally called TIC software which later became the Quick Buddy web applet. AOL also provided the TOC protocol specification openly to developers in the hopes that they will use it instead of the Proprietary software. OSCAR protocol they use themselves. In July 2012, AOL turned off the TOC2 servers and it is no longer possible to connect to AIM

TOC was an ASCII-based protocol, while OSCAR is a binary protocol. In addition, TOC contained fewer features than its OSCAR counterpart. OSCAR provides such functionality as buddy icons, file transfer, and l]advertising

== How it works ==