Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 11:38:33 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net>, "Niall Smart" <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?) Message-ID: <01a101bd4c42$f7e56380$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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>> Hmmm, is it mIRC? ;) > > Good guess. :) I've got a *LOT* of time and effort invested in my IRC >Operator scripts (about 200k worth) and there aren't any unix irc >clients that will let me do everything that mirc does (mostly putting >different information in different windows so that I can analyze >different elements of the network at the same time, and still chat with >my friends :), even if I wanted to take the time to learn the scripting >language(s) which I don't. This is basically the only reason I boot >something other than freebsd anymore, if you don't count the odd DOS >game. :) hmmm, have you tried "wine" recently? the latest version seems to be giving me problems, however the previous version from last month seemed to run Mirc quite well. also in regards to totally avoiding that annoying program (mirc) you might want to look at: kirc - http://www.kde.org/ - this is from the KDE project, however it seems to be more annoying than mirc, and less stable. tkirc - http://home.pages.de/~tkirc - a tk interface to irc-II, very nice imo, ALMOST as easy to use as mirc, with a few stupidities included, however tkirc lacks the spiffy MDI child windows, so managing it can be a bit annoying, however, the ability to have different windows open to different channels and chats at the same time, on seperate virtual screen kinda ummm... "rules" heh :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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