RE: An experiment in IRC...

["David Gibbs" <devdmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On  4 Sep 97 at 6:37, Vern Hamberg wrote:

> Maybe someone can expand on this further; otherwise, I can go find a
> man page (that's Unix for help text, sort of) on the subject, with
> pertinent commands, etc.

Most ISP's that offer UNIX SHELL accounts will also offer access to a 
green screen IRC client (UNIX Based, of course).  The command to 
access this is probably "IRC"... although it might be IIRC.  You 
probably don't need any command line parms, as most ISP's setup a 
default IRC server.

Most of the GUI based IRC client programs are far easier to use, as 
text based IRC clients have a lot of cryptic commands that are pretty 
hard (IMHO) to use.  I've never gotten the hang of text based IRC.  I 
far prefer the GUI's.  

IMHO, MS Chat 2.1 b1 is quite a good program for chatting.  It
provides both a plaintext interface as well as a "Comic Strip"
interface (that's hilarious... you should have seen some of the
characters assigned).  If you are chatting with MS Chat, you get to
pick your own character... if not, MS Chat assigns a random one.  MS
Chat is, of course, only available for Win95 systems presently.

(Obligitory AS400 reference) To my knowledge, there is no IRC
client's available for the '400... but some enterprising developer
might be able to take a GNU IRC client and port it.   Since it's
strictly text based, there should be no UI problems.  (Phil, Doc,
get cracking :)

david
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