[plug] mIRC style irc clients for X

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Christian Payne wrote:

> There are *MUCH* better IRC clients for X than circus!
>
> ksirc is based on sirc (the Perl-based one) which means it extremely
> powerful scripting capabilities but it's also very easy to use and
> configure and is highly graphical.  The nick-completion is also extremely
> nice. :)  http://www.ksirc.org  - it's designed to run with KDE but
> there's a statically linked version if you don't have the necessary libs.
>
> There's also one called yagirc (Yet Another GTK+ IRC client) which looks

bezerk or gIRC?..i tried bezerk, interface is nice, needs a scripting
language though.. okay if you just need a barebones
client.

> quite good but I haven't got around to trying it yet so I can't really
> comment on it's features.  I think they might be working on GNOME
> integration but I'm not sure.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Christian.
>
> PS. This email should *NOT* be interpreted as meaning that I spend too
> much time on IRC. ;-)
>
> On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Peter Caffin wrote:
>
> > Shane van Ingen wrote:
> > > I just have a question.. Where can I get some sort of good quality
> > > mIRC client for Linux under X???
> >
> > Probably the closest I've seen is cIRCus. It's a bit clunky though.
> >
> > http://www.nijenrode.nl/~ivo/circus/
> >
> > If you're using a dynamic IP net account, it'll suit you fine.
> >
> > It's more of a pig to get working properly if you've got a fixed IP
> > address and you're used to running X as root. It can take a bit of
> > tweaking before you'll be able to have it running satisfactorily as a
> > user. More info on the discussion forums at the above URL.
> >
> > I haven't played around with BitchX (a shell for good old ircII), but,
> > that may also be worth investigating.
> >
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