Carl.von.Loesch@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Carl v. Loesch) (05/09/91)
Archive-name: internet/talk/rxirc/1991-04-28
Archive-directory: ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/pub/irc/VM/rxIRC/ [134.106.1.9]
Original-posting-by: Carl.von.Loesch@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Carl v. Loesch)
Original-subject: rxIRC 1.1 - new version of the Internet Chat for VM/CMS available
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
OK! I have done thorough testing this time. It is finished - it is beautiful -
it is yours! What is it?
It is a chat program to communicate with the world of IRC, the
Internet Relay Chat, which nowadays counts a media of 240 users 24 hours
a day from all over the world.
You can use it only if you are on a VM and have TCPIP. You may already
have been trying to install the VM-IRC client which is available with
the standard unix irc package, but here's some reasons why rxIRC is better:
a) rxIRC is in RexX, you can easily modify it and add your own commands.
b) rxIRC now supports all standard commands of IRC.
c) and it has some neat additions which the normal one hasn't.
(/exec, !, /follow, /reply, CTCP-VERSION-/request, /list-filter,
quiet-/ignore, ASCII-beep-support, IRC PROFILE, defaults file)
But there's also a problem to it...
rxIRC requires an special package called RexTCPIP. It is available from
VM-UTIL. But the version rxIRC 1.1 doesn't work together with the version
of RexTCPIP available at ListServ but with a newer one. So for a while
you'll have to obtain the current RexTCPIP version by sending personal
Mail to me or by taking the RexTCPIP.Assemble file and producing the module
from that.
But you can use the AFD and FUI mechanisms of LISTSERV to get the
new version as soon as it's out and then go take the rxIRC which is
available via anonymous ftp at:
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (currently 134.106.1.9)
either in form of a VM-zoo: /pub/irc/rxIRC1_1.zoo
or in single files (use MGET): /pub/irc/VM/rxIRC/*.*
The source code of the RexTCPIP Module is: /pub/irc/VM/RexTCPIP.Assemble
I hope you will all enjoy IRC and my little program and mail
your opinions back to me.
Ciao!
-lynx
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-- comp.archives file verification
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 9004 900 9531 Apr 29 21:27 rxIRC.Exec
-rw-r--r-- 2 9004 900 10731 Apr 28 22:58 Manual.HelpIRC
-rw-r--r-- 1 9004 900 748 Apr 28 22:51 rxIRC.HelpMenu
-rw-r--r-- 1 9004 900 2249 Apr 28 21:51 Custom.HelpIRC
-rw-r--r-- 1 9004 900 873 Apr 28 21:42 rxIRC.README
-rw-r--r-- 1 9004 900 1036 Apr 28 21:41 Syntax.HelpIRC
-rw-r--r-- 1 9004 900 2837 Apr 28 21:40 Special.HelpIRC
-rw-r--r-- 1 9004 900 233 Apr 28 18:46 rxIRC.Names
-rw-r--r-- 2 9004 900 3550 Feb 16 11:27 Etiq.HelpIRC
found rxirc ok
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/pub/irc/VM/rxIRC/