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Linux IRC mini-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: July 2001</CiteTitle>.
Updated: November 2002</CiteTitle>.
Describes the basics of IRC and respective applications for Linux. </Para>
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Linux IRC mini-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: July 2001</CiteTitle>.
Updated: November 2002</CiteTitle>.
Describes the basics of IRC and respective applications for Linux. </Para>
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<article id="index">
<articleinfo>
<title>Linux IRC mini-HOWTO</title>
<pubdate>v0.2 1 July, 2001</pubdate>
<pubdate>v0.3 11 November, 2002</pubdate>
<author><firstname>Frédéric</firstname><othername>L. W.</othername><surname>Meunier</surname></author>
<authorinitials>fredlwm</authorinitials>
<address><email>linuxdoc @ pervalidus.net</email></address>
<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
<date>2001-07-01</date>
<revnumber>0.3</revnumber>
<date>2002-11-21</date>
<authorinitials>fredlwm</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Third revision.
Fourth revision.
</revremark>
</revision>
</revhistory>
@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ RFC1459 by Jarkko Oikarinen and Darren Reed was the first about the Internet Rel
<ulink url="http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1459.txt">http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1459.txt</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
RFC2810 by Christophe Kalt updates RFC1459 and describes the Architecture of the Internet Relay Chat. It can be found at
<ulink url="http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2810.txt">http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2810.txt</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
RFC2811 by Christophe Kalt updates RFC1459 and describes the Channel Management of the Internet Relay Chat. It can be found at
<ulink url="http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2811.txt">http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2811.txt</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
@ -54,7 +58,7 @@ Avoid common misuses of IRC by writing an IRC Etiquette;
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
List popular clients, servers, bots, and bouncers, along with their maintainers, #channel, small description, download
location, homepage, and hints;
location, home page, and hints;
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
List IRC tools available in the latest release of all major distributions.
@ -63,17 +67,19 @@ List IRC tools available in the latest release of all major distributions.
<sect2><title>Miscellaneous</title>
<para>The latest version of this document is available at
<ulink url="http://www.pervalidus.net/docs/IRC-mini-HOWTO/">http://www.pervalidus.net/docs/IRC-mini-HOWTO/</ulink>.</para>
<ulink url="http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/">http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/</ulink>.</para>
<para>A WIP of the next draft may be available at
<ulink url="http://www.pervalidus.net/docs/IRC-mini-HOWTO/WIP/">http://www.pervalidus.net/docs/IRC-mini-HOWTO/WIP/</ulink>.</para>
<ulink url="http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/WIP/">http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/WIP/</ulink>.</para>
<para>All drafts are archived at
<ulink url="http://www.pervalidus.net/docs/IRC-mini-HOWTO/old/">http://www.pervalidus.net/docs/IRC-mini-HOWTO/old/</ulink>.</para>
<ulink url="http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/old/">http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/old/</ulink>.</para>
<para>Everything is mirrored at
<ulink url="http://pervalidus.port5.com/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/">http://pervalidus.port5.com/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/</ulink>.</para>
<para>You can e-mail me (in English, French, or Portuguese) with suggestions about the mini-HOWTO. I know this is far from
finished, but hope you find it useful. Just don't ask me to add your application or site. Most likely I won't. Also don't ask
for technical support. I have no time to help everyone.</para>
<para>BTW, someone to work on the protocol and server sides would be very welcome to join the project.</para>
<para>BTW, someone to work on the protocol and server sides would be very welcome.</para>
<para>Frédéric L. W. Meunier (<email>linuxdoc @ pervalidus.net</email>)</para></sect2>
@ -101,19 +107,19 @@ growing at an incredible pace, we must thank hardware manufacturers for giving u
<sect2><title>Running the ircII program</title>
<para>It's easy to use ircII. Let's say you want to connect to irc.openprojects.net as mini-HOWTO.</para>
<para>It's easy to use ircII. Let's say you want to connect to irc.freenode.net as mini-HOWTO.</para>
<para>At the command line, type:</para>
<para>$ irc mini-HOWTO irc.openprojects.net</para>
<para>$ irc mini-HOWTO irc.freenode.net</para>
<para>You can also export variables, so you won't need to use them at the command line:</para>
<para>$ export IRCNICK=mini-HOWTO IRCSERVER=irc.openprojects.net</para>
<para>$ export IRCNICK=mini-HOWTO IRCSERVER=irc.freenode.net</para>
<para>Add them to your shell profile (e.g. ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile) when you're done.</para>
<para>Other common variables are IRCNAME and IRCUSER, to respectively set the ircname part of a /whois and username as seen at
the first line 'mini-HOWTO is ~username@hostname (ircname)'. Keep in mind that IRCUSER won't work if you run an ident daemon
(default on most distributions). If you still need to change your username (not recommended, and I hope you're not using IRC
logged as root !), install oidentd from <ulink url="http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/">http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/</ulink>, create
/etc/identd.spoof with a list of users allowed to spoof their ident, and ~/.ispoof with their reply (e.g. reply). Finally run
'/usr/local/sbin/oidentd -g nobody -N -s -u nobody'. Add this to your startup scripts (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.local) when you're
done.</para> <para>If not set, IRCNICK, IRCUSER, and IRCNAME will be retrieved from /etc/passwd .</para></sect2>
logged as root !), install oidentd from <ulink url="http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/">http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/</ulink>. To
configure, read the oidentd.conf man page. Finally run '/usr/local/sbin/oidentd -g nobody -u nobody'. Add this to your startup
scripts (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.local) when you're done.</para> <para>If not set, IRCNICK, IRCUSER, and IRCNAME will be retrieved
from /etc/passwd .</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>Commands</title>
@ -130,19 +136,19 @@ First, /set NOVICE off
on the same connection)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/j #LinPeople joins channel <emphasis>#LinPeople</emphasis>
/j #mini-HOWTO joins channel <emphasis>#mini-HOWTO</emphasis>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/j #Slackware joins channel <emphasis>#Slackware</emphasis>
/j #unmaintained-HOWTO joins channel <emphasis>#unmaintained-HOWTO</emphasis>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/j #LinPeople changes the active current channel to <emphasis>#LinPeople</emphasis>
/j #mini-HOWTO changes the active current channel to <emphasis>#mini-HOWTO</emphasis>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/msg <emphasis>nick</emphasis> Hi. sends a private message to <emphasis>nick</emphasis> containing <emphasis>Hi.</emphasis>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/notice <emphasis>nick</emphasis> (or #LinPeople) Hi. sends a notice to <emphasis>nick</emphasis> (or #LinPeople) containing <emphasis>Hi.</emphasis>
/notice <emphasis>nick</emphasis> (or #mini-HOWTO) Hi. sends a notice to <emphasis>nick</emphasis> (or #mini-HOWTO) containing <emphasis>Hi.</emphasis>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/query <emphasis>nick</emphasis> starts a private conversation with <emphasis>nick</emphasis>. /query ends the private conversation
@ -163,13 +169,13 @@ on the same connection)
/part leaves the active current channel
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/part #Slackware leaves channel #Slackware
/part #unmaintained-HOWTO leaves channel <emphasis>#unmaintained-HOWTO</emphasis>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/discon disconnects from current IRCSERVER
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/server irc.dal.net connects to IRCSERVER irc.dal.net
/server irc.us.freenet.net connects to IRCSERVER <emphasis>irc.us.freenet.net</emphasis>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
/quit Bye. quits your IRC session with a reason <emphasis>Bye.</emphasis>
@ -198,7 +204,7 @@ not the whole text. The last 2 are just very annoying.
<listitem><para>
Ask if you can ask a question. Just ask, but first read all documentation available on the subject. Start looking at <ulink
url="file:/usr/doc/">/usr/doc/</ulink> , otherwise go to <ulink
url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">http://www.linuxdoc.org/</ulink> or <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/">http://www.tldp.org/</ulink> or <ulink
url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/">http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/</ulink>. And don't repeat your question
immediately. Wait at least 10 minutes. If you don't get any answer it's because nobody knows or wants to help. Respect their
choice, they're not your personal assistant. Also never send mass private messages. It's like SPAM.
@ -232,24 +238,32 @@ Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.epicsol.org/">http://www.epicsol.org/</ulink>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> #BitchX on EFNet</para>
<para>Based on ircII and EPIC, BitchX could be compared to the Pine MUA. Bloatware (doesn't mean you shouldn't use it) and
widely used. The choice for users that want a client with built-in facilities. It can be built with the GNOME libraries by
widely used. The choice for users that want a client with built-in facilities. It can be compiled with the GNOME libraries by
using the configure option --with-gtk. Don't be surprised if all you get is a XTerm-BitchX instead.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of BitchX from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.bitchx.com/pub/BitchX/source/">ftp://ftp.bitchx.com/pub/BitchX/source/</ulink>.
<para>You can get the latest version of BitchX from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.bitchx.org/pub/BitchX/source/">ftp://ftp.bitchx.org/pub/BitchX/source/</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.bitchx.com/">http://www.bitchx.com/</ulink>.
Homepage of gtkBitchX at <ulink url="http://www.bitchx.org/gtk/">http://www.bitchx.org/gtk/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>irssi</title>
<para><emphasis>Maintainer:</emphasis> Timo Sirainen (<email>tss @ iki.fi</email>)</para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> #irssi on <ulink url="http://openprojects.net/irc_servers.shtml">OPN</ulink> and <ulink url="http://www.ircnet.org/">IRCnet</ulink></para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> #irssi on <ulink url="http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml">freenode</ulink> and <ulink url="http://www.ircnet.org/">IRCnet</ulink></para>
<para>Timo released yagIRC ~3 years ago. It was a GUI client using the GTK+ toolkit. The army called on him, and the new
maintainers wouldn't do the job. yagIRC passed away and he started irssi as a replacement. It used GTK+. GNOME and curses
versions would appear later. As of 0.7.90 it's only a modular text mode client. Supports Perl scripting.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of irssi from <ulink url="http://irssi.org/?page=download">http://irssi.org/?page=download</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://irssi.org/">http://irssi.org/</ulink>.</para></sect2></sect1>
Homepage at <ulink url="http://irssi.org/">http://irssi.org/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>Other Console IRC Clients</title>
<para>There are a few others ircII based clients.</para>
<para>Blackened <ulink url="http://www.blackened.com/blackened/">http://www.blackened.com/blackened/</ulink>.</para>
<para>Ninja <ulink url="http://ninja.qoop.org/">http://ninja.qoop.org/</ulink>.</para>
<para>ScrollZ <ulink url="http://www.scrollz.com/">http://www.scrollz.com/</ulink>.</para></sect2></sect1>
<sect1 id="xfree"><title>X Window IRC Clients</title>
@ -263,34 +277,14 @@ Homepage at <ulink url="http://irssi.org/">http://irssi.org/</ulink>.</para></se
<para>You can get the latest version of Zircon from <ulink url="ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/">ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/">http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>Sula PrimeriX II</title>
<para><emphasis>Maintainer:</emphasis> Tano Fotang (<email>fotang @ yahoo.com</email>)</para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> None ?</para>
<para>Uses GTK+ or XForms, and Guile.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of Sula PrimeriX II from <ulink url="http://spx.linuxatwork.at/#where-to-get-it">http://spx.linuxatwork.at/#where-to-get-it</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://spx.linuxatwork.at/">http://spx.linuxatwork.at/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>xIrc</title>
<para><emphasis>Maintainer:</emphasis> Robert Borrell (<email>borrell @ pobox.com</email>)</para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> None ?</para>
<para>Using the Qt toolkit, xIrc is less featured than KVIrc. As an advantage, it's faster.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of xIrc from <ulink url="http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc/download.html">http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc/download.html</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc/">http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>KVIrc</title>
<para><emphasis>Maintainer:</emphasis> Szymon Stefanek (<email>stefanek @ tin.it</email>)</para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> #KVIrc on OPN</para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> #KVIrc on freenode</para>
<para>Also written with the Qt toolkit, KVIrc is a beast. Supports DCC Voice, built-in scripting language, and plugins.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of KVIrc from <ulink url="http://www.kvirc.net/download.html">http://www.kvirc.net/download.html</ulink>.
<para>You can get the latest version of KVIrc from <ulink url="http://www.kvirc.net/?id=download">http://www.kvirc.net/?id=download</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.kvirc.net/">http://www.kvirc.net/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>X-Chat</title>
@ -332,16 +326,16 @@ Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.irc.org/">http://www.irc.org/</ulink>.</para>
<para>Mainly used by EFNet.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of IRCD-Hybrid from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.blackened.com/pub/irc/hybrid/">ftp://ftp.blackened.com/pub/irc/hybrid/</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.ircd-hybrid.net/">http://www.ircd-hybrid.net/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.ircd-hybrid.org/">http://www.ircd-hybrid.org/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>ircu</title>
<para><emphasis>Maintainer:</emphasis> Undernet Coder Committee (<email>coder-com @ undernet.org</email>)</para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> #ircu on <ulink url="http://www.undernet.org/servers.shtml">Undernet</ulink></para>
<para><emphasis>IRC Channel:</emphasis> #ircu on <ulink url="http://www.undernet.org/servers.php">Undernet</ulink></para>
<para>Mainly used by Undernet.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of ircu from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.coder-com.undernet.org/ircu/">ftp://ftp.coder-com.undernet.org/ircu/</ulink>.
<para>You can get the latest version of ircu from <ulink url="http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/undernet-ircu/">http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/undernet-ircu/</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://coder-com.undernet.org/">http://coder-com.undernet.org/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>Bahamut</title>
@ -376,7 +370,8 @@ Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.eggheads.org/">http://www.eggheads.org/</ulin
<para>bnc is the original bouncer.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of bnc from <ulink url="http://www.linuxberg.com/files/files/console/servers/bnc2.6.4.tar.gz">LinuxBerg</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<para>You can get the latest version of bnc from <ulink url="http://gotbnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi">http://gotbnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://gotbnc.com/">http://gotbnc.com/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>muh</title>
@ -387,7 +382,7 @@ Homepage at <ulink url="http://www.eggheads.org/">http://www.eggheads.org/</ulin
on IRC as soon as it's launched, guarding or attempting to get your
nick.</para>
<para>You can get the latest version of muh from <ulink url="http://mind.riot.org/muh/download.rt">http://mind.riot.org/muh/download.rt</ulink>.
<para>You can get the latest version of muh from <ulink url="http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/muh/">http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/muh/</ulink>.
Homepage at <ulink url="http://mind.riot.org/muh/">http://mind.riot.org/muh/</ulink>.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>ezbounce</title>
@ -406,8 +401,8 @@ administration, logging and listening on multiple ports.</para>
<para>All popular clients use <emphasis>GNU</emphasis> autoconf and <emphasis>GNU</emphasis> automake, thus come with a
configure script. Read the installation instructions after you unpack the sources. Be sure you have the required libraries in
order to build. Doing cd sources;mkdir objdir;cd objdir; ../configure --help;../configure
<emphasis>your_options_here</emphasis>;make;make install (or make install_strip) &gt; ~/sources_install.log is the right
order to compile. Doing cd sources; mkdir objdir; cd objdir; ../configure --help; ../configure
<emphasis>your_options_here</emphasis>; make; make install (or make install_strip) &gt; ~/sources_install.log is the right
procedure. Also note that for ircII, EPIC, and BitchX you should really edit include/config.h to suit your
needs.</para></sect2>
@ -421,60 +416,39 @@ needs.</para></sect2>
<sect2><title>Debian</title>
<para>IRC Channel: #Debian on OPN</para>
<para>IRC Channel: #Debian on freenode (irc.debian.org -> irc.freenode.net)</para>
<para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</ulink> includes too many IRC tools to list. You can find them at the
following places:</para>
<itemizedlist><listitem><para>
Debian <ulink url="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/net/">stable</ulink>.
Debian <ulink url="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/">stable</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Debian <ulink url="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/">unstable</ulink> (didn't receive enough testing).
Debian <ulink url="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/">unstable</ulink> (didn't receive enough testing).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Also be sure to check the <ulink url="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/">proposed updates</ulink>. It may have IRC clients as well.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Debian non-free (applications with a restrictive license) contains <ulink url="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/net/circus_0.43-1.deb">cIRCus</ulink>.
Also be sure to check the <ulink url="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/">proposed updates</ulink>. It may contain IRC clients as well.
</para></listitem></itemizedlist></sect2>
<sect2><title>RedHat</title>
<sect2><title>Red Hat</title>
<para>IRC Channel: #RedHat on OPN (not official)</para>
<para>IRC Channel: #RedHat on freenode (irc.redhat.com -> irc.freenode.net)</para>
<para><ulink url="http://www.redhat.com/">RedHat</ulink> 7.1 includes the following clients:</para>
<para><ulink url="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</ulink> 8.0 includes the following clients:</para>
<itemizedlist><listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ircii-4.4Z-4.i386.rpm">ircII 4.4Z</ulink>.
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/epic-1.0.1-8.i386.rpm">EPIC 1.0.1</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
KSirc from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/kdenetwork-2.1.1-1.i386.rpm">KDE Network 2.1.1</ulink>.
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ksirc-3.0.3-3.i386.rpm">KSirc from KDE Network 3.0.3</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/xchat-1.6.3-4.i386.rpm">X-Chat 1.6.3</ulink>.
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/xchat-1.8.10-8.i386.rpm">X-Chat 1.8.10</ulink>.
</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist><listitem><para>
RedHat Powertools (what's worth but they don't want to include or can't) 7.1 includes the following clients:
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/BitchX-1.0c17-6.i386.rpm">BitchX</ulink>
and <ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gtkBitchX-1.0c17-6.i386.rpm">gtkBitchX</ulink>
1.0c17.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/epic-4_2000-6.i386.rpm">EPIC4 2000</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/kvirc-2.1.0-2.i386.rpm">KVIrc 2.1.0</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/tkirc-2.43-2.noarch.rpm">tkIRC 2.43</ulink>.
</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist><listitem><para>
RedHat RawHide (current development)
Red Hat Raw Hide (current development)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/">ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/</ulink>. Use at your own risk.
@ -482,21 +456,21 @@ RedHat RawHide (current development)
<sect2><title>Slackware</title>
<para>IRC Channel: #Slackware on OPN</para>
<para>IRC Channel: #Slackware on freenode</para>
<para><ulink url="http://www.slackware.com/">Slackware</ulink> 8.0 includes the following clients:</para>
<para><ulink url="http://www.slackware.com/">Slackware</ulink> 8.1 includes the following clients:</para>
<itemizedlist><listitem><para>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/slakware/n1/bitchx.tgz">BitchX 1.0c18</ulink>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/slackware/n/bitchx-1.0c19-i386-1.tgz">BitchX 1.0c19</ulink>
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/slakware/n1/epic4.tgz">EPIC4 1.0.1</ulink>
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/slackware/n/epic4-1.0.1-i386-2.tgz">EPIC4 1.0.1</ulink>
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KSirc from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/slakware/kde1/knetwork.tgz">KDE Network 2.1.1</ulink>.
KSirc from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/slackware/kde/kdenetwork-3.0.1-i386-2.tgz">KDE Network 3.0.1</ulink>.
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<ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/slakware/gtk1/xchat.tgz">X-Chat 1.6.4</ulink>.
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/slackware/gnome/xchat-1.8.9-i386-1.tgz">X-Chat 1.8.9</ulink>.
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<sect1 id="thanks"><title>Hell and Paradise</title>
<sect2><title>Gods</title>
<sect2><title>Gods (developers)</title>
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Thanks to all authors. Without their hard and volunteer work I'd never write it, and we'd never get our hands on Linux (and IRC).
Thanks to all authors. Without their hard and volunteer work I'd never write it, and we'd never get our hands on Linux nor IRC.
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<sect2><title>Saints</title>
<sect2><title>Saints (contributors)</title>
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Put your name here.
See <ulink url="http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/">http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/</ulink>.
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<sect2><title>Angels</title>
<sect2><title>Angels (feedback)</title>
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Put your name here.
See above.
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<sect2><title>Devils</title>
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Khaled Mardam-Bey must be stopped <emphasis>:)</emphasis>
Khaled Mardam-Bey must be stopped <emphasis>:-)</emphasis>
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'If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport'. I don't know who wrote that, but it makes sense. For those of you using IRC to
annoy and piss off I ordered a /kill for Christmas.
annoy people I ordered a /kill.
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<sect1 id="history"><title>Revision History</title>
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20010701 - v0.2, third draft
20021121 - v0.3, fourth draft
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