minirc -- Minix IRC client (runs on most other Unices too) author: Stian Sletner version 1.2.1 2002-12-07 The basic commands as described in any IRC primer (join, part, mode, who, nick, msg, notice, list, links, and so on) should work as expected. Though since Minirc doesn't support runtime aliases, some shortcuts are hardcoded into the client, but they're not described here as it is pretty intuitive both to read and add your own in uparse.c. Minirc is very limited because it has been designed to run on very limited machines, so don't expect memory-hungry features such as scrollback buffers, command line history, etc. to appear in any future release. Minirc does not send a keepalive to the server. This means that if the connection gets stoned, you might not discover it unless you try to send something, causing you to believe you are connected indefinitely, when in fact you've been tossed off the server long ago. In order for Minirc to work properly, you may have to use stty (1) to set the number of columns and rows on your terminal, as Minix is unable to detect this automatically. If you're on a terminal which is 168x64, type `stty rows 64 cols 168' before starting Minirc. You may have to adjust other things with stty, too, like erase and intr. If you're logging into your Minix box remotely, and using a (fairly modern) X terminal emulator (such as nxterm (1), rxvt (1), etc), you might want to use `vt100' for your $TERM instead of `xterm', since it probably supports scroll regions, and that isn't included in the termcap entry for `xterm' that comes with Minix. This will make scrolling smoother. Installation: as bin, copy minirc.tar.Z to /usr/local/src. Unpack with zcat and tar. Directory /usr/local/src/minirc will be created. Read the Makefile before compiling, a small change is needed for Minix releases previous to 2.0.3 Down load from: http://minix1.{hampshire|bio.umass}.edu/pub/contrib/minirc12.tar.Z (2002-12-14)