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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 01:11:33 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        vagner@ginger.dhis.org
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IRC
Message-ID:  <19990608011132.A92747@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990607204733.vagner@ginger.vagner.com>; from "vagner@ginger.dhis.org" on Mon Jun  7 20:47:33 GMT 1999
References:  <XFMail.990607204733.vagner@ginger.vagner.com>

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In the last episode (Jun 07), vagner@ginger.dhis.org said:
> I am trying to get irc going and am running into some trouble.
> 
> here is my trouble
> 
> ginger# irc irc.freebsd.org
> irc: unknown host
> ginger#

the irc command's usage is

irc [nickname] [server]

So you tried to connect to the default IRC server (which defaults to
"irc") with a nickname of "irc.freebsd.org" :)  Try

irc vagner irc.freebsd.org



	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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