On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, F J Franklin wrote: > Slightly embarrassed to say this, but I've never used IRC before and have > no idea how to or what software is best. > > I'd be grateful for any advice. I like xchat for a a nice GUI interface to irc and bitchX for a useful command line irc client. Commands to irc are prefaced with a "/" Useful commands after firing up irc are: /connect irc.gnome.org /join #abiword /me "Text goes here" Useful for third person comments about yourself :-) Cheers Martin
