IrcII

ircII is a Unix Internet Relay Chat Client (computing) that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form.

Designed to run in a Command line interface environment, ircII is not pretty -- it has no sounds, graphics, menus, pop-ups, etc. It is, however, fast, stable, lightweight, portable, and easily backgrounded using virtual terminals such as Unix GNU Screen .

As the Unix and Unix-like systems evolved and increased in popularity, more, newer Internet relay chat clients have been developed for them as well. Perhaps the most common are BitchX and Enhanced Programmable ircII Client, both variants of the ircII client with greater functionality built into them at some stage in their development.

At one time, the ircII client set the standard against which all other clients were developed and measured. While this may still hold true to some extent today, the Microsoft Windows client mIRC has largely taken over that position.

=External links=

*[http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ Home page] *[http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircii/ Installation, Scripts] *[http://irc.pages.de/ircII/ Script updates] from the original author of the ircII scripts