Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:35:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Brian Roberts <ch@shot1.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: irc Message-ID: <20030304233556.GB6878@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030302215518.A770@bus.shot1.org> References: <20030302215518.A770@bus.shot1.org>
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On 2003-03-02 21:55, Brian Roberts <ch@shot1.org> wrote: > 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. IRC is fun :) It's also addictive. I spent a great deal of the last 2-3 years on IRC and then realised that I was spending too much time there! > I havee a few questions.... > > Is it worth it? Can anyone suggest a good app to use? The ports collection includes an irc/ category under /usr/ports. I have at times used ircII, ircII-EPIC4, BitchX, xchat, kvirc, and a few others. These days, I'm trying out irssi, which looks fairly nice. Easy to install and use, with separate 'windows' for private and channel messages, smart setup and easy configuration... it's definitely what I'll suggest to all new IRC users from now on. > 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. A good IRC client should come with online /help commands. A typical session for my irssi client is: bash-2.x$ irssi -n keramida -c undernet then it's just a matter of typing /join, /part and /query as you used to do with mIRC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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