> i find myself needing to use IRC, so:
>
> what do people use for an IRC client under plan 9? with all these
> "town hall discussions", i'd blithely assumed there was something
> simple and obvious, but i can't find it. google suggests that
> andrey's pages have a port of something called EPIC, but to be honest
> i'd much prefer something that didn't run under vt (which i hate),
> and the pages are down currently.
>
> i tried russ's shell-script-style client, but couldn't get
> it to work (it just seems to hang).
>
> i have to admit i've never used IRC in my life before...
>
> cheers,
> rog.
I apologize for not having a direct answer, but I'm currently fighting
a failing harddrive (at least it seems so whenever I try to run a
command in xterm:
bash: /bin/ls: Input/output error
or something else even more bizarre:
./lib/modules:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 25 08:48 2.6.10-1.771_FC2
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? 2.6.10-xen0
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? 2.6.10-xenU
)
the client Russ mentioned is available under:
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/irc/irc.tgz
unfortunately that's down until the admins figure out how to fix a
failing file server. at the same location, under 'irc7.tgz' (and
linked to from the index page) is a persistent irc client that most of
us use to connect from remote machines. it works in two parts -- a
program called 'ircsrv' handles the connection with the irc server,
reconnecting when it drops etc., posting the resulting dialogue to
/srv. a simple client called 'irc' parses that dialogue and presents
it to the user, accepting commands to write off to the irc channel.
two other clients take the general unix approach -- handling client
and server communication in a single package -- ircc and irc8, they
should both be accessible from the wiki.
i'm sorry about EPIC, it's a port of one of the lightest unix clients
to p9, vt was kind of necessary. i wouldn't expect anyone to use it,
as it was done just to spite those saying 'there's no irc client for
p9'.
there's a port of the perl irc client 'sirc', which is in the same
vein as ircc and irc8 (i.e. handles the connection and the user
dialogue in the same stdin/stdout fashion). it needs perl. i'm
sorry. (though if you need it i can send it).
i now need to reboot (thank god Plan 9 has nothing to do with this
machine):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /usr/bin/which
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18424 Aug 7 2004 /usr/bin/which
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/which which
bash: /usr/bin/which: Input/output error
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
