From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 4 15:36: 8 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 7634D37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:36:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D74443FA3 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b047.otenet.gr [195.167.121.175]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h24Na2IH007693; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:36:03 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h24Na1js007034; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:36:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h24NZudg007029; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:35:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:35:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brian Roberts Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: irc Message-ID: <20030304233556.GB6878@gothmog.gr> References: <20030302215518.A770@bus.shot1.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030302215518.A770@bus.shot1.org> 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 On 2003-03-02 21:55, Brian Roberts 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