ircII

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IrcII
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ircII using an IRC channel named #7chan
Developer(s) Matthew R. Green
Stable release 20150903 (September 3, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-09-03)) [±]
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like
Size 546 kB
Available in English
Type IRC client
Licence 3-clause BSD license
Website www.eterna.com.au/ircii/

ircII (pronounced i-r-c-two,[1][2] and sometimes referred to as IRC client, second edition[3]) is a free, open-source Unix IRC and ICB client written in C. Initially released in the late 1980s, it is the oldest IRC client still maintained.[4][5] Several other UNIX IRC clients, including BitchX, EPIC, and ScrollZ, were originally forks of ircII. For some,[who?] ircII set the standard of quality for IRC clients, however other clients have since overtaken ircII in terms of popularity.[6] The application has been promoted as being "fast, stable, lightweight, portable, and easily backgrounded".[7]

ircII runs in a text-only shell-based environment. The application has no menus, pop-ups, or any other GUI features[8] or support for CTCP SOUND that many graphical IRC clients, such as xChat typically have.

ircII was the first IRC client to implement Client-to-client protocol (CTCP) and the Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) protocol, and was the first client to implement file transfer capabilities over IRC.[9] The CTCP protocol was implemented by Michael Sandrof in 1990 for version 2.1.[10] The DCC protocol was implemented by Troy Rollo in 1991 for version 2.1.2,[11] but was never intended to be portable to other IRC clients.[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ See the 'NOTES' and 'source/ctcp.c' files included with ircii-2.1.4e.tar.gz
  11. ↑ See the 'UPDATES' and 'source/dcc.c' files included with ircii-2.1.4e.tar.gz
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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