IRC - irc client/ui for Plan 9

• Jul 13, 2006: (from sascha retzki): "this patch will make QUIT-events to be displayed everywhere"
• Jul 11, 2006: (from sascha retzki): support for -p password
• Jul 20, 2005: (from aki nyrhinen) "i noticed that irc7 client doesnt play well with cfs. this is because cfs only updates the file length information on open(2) or stat(2), so follow(fd) doesnt really return new data before someone tries to read the /tmp/xyzirc file."; fix applied.
• Jun 06, 2005: ircsrv now knows about nick collisions and will append a digit to the nick
• May 24, 2005: fixed a bug introduced with the latest update
• May 19, 2005: new argument "-r" causes irc to replay the conversation from a raw file
• Apr 24, 2005: added a new target -- "MSGS" which catches all private messages
• Apr 12, 2005: added a new command -- /h and /H print out the help menu
• Apr 8, 2005: added code to correctly wrap around lines longer than the terminal. stolen from mc.c
• Apr 6, 2005: made all target comparisons case insensitive. fixes an issue when somebody may join #Plan9 while you're targeting #plan9.

NAME

	ircsrv, irc – internet relay chat client and ui

SYNOPSIS

	ircsrv [ –s serv ] [ –f file ] nickname [tcp!]irc.server.org irc [ –c charset ] [ –t victim ] [ –b lines ] [ /srv/serv [ /tmp/file ]]

DESCRIPTION

Ircsrv makes a connection to an irc server and reconnects if the connection gets broken. It posts a service to /srv and creates (if necessary) an append mode log file to /tmp. Default file and service name is a concatenation of 4 first letters of username and the string irc Irc is a client program that makes use of the service provided by ircsrv and provides a user interface for sending and receiving messages. The command language understood by irc is as follows /m     privmsg #chan/nick message /M     mode #chan +nt /j     join [ #chan ] /p     part [ #chan ] /q     send parameters raw to the server /l     list [ #chan ] /n     nick newnick /N     notice #chan/nick message /t     set [ victim ] /T     topic [ #chan [ newtopic ]] /W     whois nick /w     who nick (a shorter whois) The –c flag sets character set conversion using tcs(1), the –b flag causes the client to display the last n lines of the default target or conversations if no target is set. Without any arguments –b prints the conversation from the very beginning. The –t flag sets the default target to which the messages are sent by default if a line written to irc does not begin with /. Irc also prints messages to/from the target exclusively if one is set.

EXAMPLES

	To start up ircsrv on a remote cpu server cpu –c ircsrv glenda irc.freenode.net To use ircsrv started earlier on a cpu server import $cpu /srv import $cpu /tmp irc To start/see/continue a conversation with a specific target (can be #chan or nick) irc –t #plan9 irc –t f2f To run irc within acme start irc inside "win –e": win –e irc –t f2f

SOURCE

	/sys/src/cmd/ircsrv.c /sys/src/cmd/irc.c

SEE ALSO

	tcs(1), faces(1), nedmail(1)

BUGS

	Probably. Missing functionality includes opening new windows when a message from a new target arrives.

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