stud@vm.cs.tum.de Carlo ynx v. Loesch (03/16/90)
I wrote an IRC-compatible conference system in rexx IRC = Internet Relay Chat by jto@tolsun.oulu.fi ... the shell is a ywakeup-based rexx program, which receives messages, passes it to automatic-response execs, whatever you want, the same with arriving mail and other events. it's also got a multi-dialogueing facility and of course (it wouldn't be a shell) an aliasing system & shell variables... unfortunately i haven't found a way yet, to make it use fullscreen eric, the programmer of chat, hasnt sent me any chat sources yet, maybe the mail didnt arrive... however i'll soon include a special mode for irc'ing unless i manage to fusionate the shell conf to the irc conf. for this operation i have a pascal program based on the new ibm telnet software which connects to any irc-server on tcpip and offers irc-connection as a disconnected server machine. I tried also to write a direct irc-client, but it keeps crashing, either with or without fullscreen, maybe it's just bugs. back to the shell: the conference works WITHOUT server (locally), the clients find themselves together by checking the QUERY LINKS of a certain disk, which contains the shell software... this is only the exception, there's also a shell server program, which coordinates the shells, especially the private & secret channels, which do not work without a server. would be great to have one program connect to irc - act as an irc server, act as a server to the local shell programs and act as a server to people from bitnet in a bitnet relay fashion or even linking up bitnet machines so that people on vm which cannot connect to an irc could be ircing through bitnet, the whole system could in the end replace the current bitnet relay network, yet, there's still some work to be done on this software, i want to know who's interested... it's ridiculous that i still have no permission to use bitnet, if there's interest on this field you can email to my administrators so that they give me more space to work on this, and you should be administrator yourself :-)), if you're a VM programmer, and want to know to help me, nothing better than that!... when the whole thing is accomplished i'd like to publish it into comp.misc.sources since there's no COMP.SYS.VM yet!!! thanks for your attention, Carlo "Lynx" von Loesch get me via email: mail to gebhart@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de administrators: mail to i11c17@dm0tui1s.bitnet (Anton Gerold)