BitchX is a popular open source Internet relay chat Client (computing). The initial implementation, written by Trench and HappyCrappy , was a script (computer programming) for the IrcII chat client. It was converted to a program on its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in 2004. It is written in C programming language, and is a computer console application. A graphical interface is also available, which uses the GTK toolkit. It works on most Unix-like operating systems, and is distributed under a BSD license. It is originally based on ircII and eventually it was merged into the Enhanced Programmable ircII Client. It supports IPv6, multiple servers and SSL, but not UTF-8. BitchX (often called just BX by fans) is well known for it s remarkable (and often gross) random quit messages.

BitchX2 is the current project. While there is no current release to the public on the new code base, the project is leaning towards merging back to the current base version of Epic. For more information about this project please visit the links included in this article.

=See also=

*List of IRC clients *Comparison of IRC clients

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