From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 2 20:12:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2877F37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:12:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from fozzy.webair.com (fozzy.webair.com [216.130.161.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 428C643FB1 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:12:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noodle@pwnd.org) Received: (qmail 41243 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2003 04:05:57 -0000 Received: from md-wstmstr-cuda1-c8a-195-b.wmnsmd.adelphia.net (HELO noodlexp) (68.65.109.195) by fozzy.webair.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2003 04:05:57 -0000 Message-ID: <019a01c2e13b$24aec9f0$0a00000a@noodlexp> From: "kirt" To: References: <20030302215518.A770@bus.shot1.org> Subject: Re: irc Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 23:12:39 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello all, > > A long time ago (96ish) I used Mirc for a while to communicate with some friends, since then everyone has moved to aolim, icq or yahooim. I keep hearing that there is a wealth of info and supports for opensource apps on irc so im going to have a try at it again. > > I havee a few questions.... > > Is it worth it? > Can anyone suggest a good app to use? Im fairly comfortable in a shell environment. > Also, anyone have a prefered how-to? I googled a bunch, but they seem to be app specific. > > Thanks in advance. > Brian > BitchX is nice enough www.bitchx.org runs happily in your average shell or in X /usr/ports/irc/bitchx/ for the port supports "windows" to allow you to view multiple channels and easy keystroke navigation of said windows (if you've ever used screen, it's very similar) the cypress script for BitchX has some handy features as well http://www.mindcryme.com/~void/ --kirt --www.pwnd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message