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The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of notable IRC client programs which have been discussed in independent, reliable prior published sources.
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tables compare general and technical information between a number of notable IRCclient programs which have been discussed in independent, reliable prior...
server or exiting the client. Chat room Client-to-client protocol Comparisonof instant messaging protocols ComparisonofIRCclients The Hamnet Players...
the oldest IRCclient still maintained. Several other UNIX IRCclients, including BitchX, EPIC, and ScrollZ, were originally forks ofircII. It was the...
An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another...
front-end clients have been closed. The combination of screen and Irssi served as an example of this architecture. The Quassel IRCclient has a similar...
rcirc is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client written in Emacs Lisp. It is one of two IRCclients included in GNU Emacs since release 22.1, alongside ERC...
the IRCclient on signon was not verified with the ident service. Scalability issue: The protocol gets increasingly inefficient with the number of contacts...
BitchX /ˈbɪtʃɛks/ is a free IRCclient that has been regarded as the most popular ircII-based IRCclient. The initial implementation, written by "Trench"...
Turkish, and Ukrainian. Free and open-source software portal ComparisonofIRCclients Web chat "PJIRC: About". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15...
outbound to an IRC channel. The server listens to connections from IRCclients on a set of TCP ports. When the server is part of an IRC network, it also...
ChatZilla is an IRCclient that is part of SeaMonkey. It was previously an extension for Mozilla-based browsers such as Firefox, introduced in 2000. It...
Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the...
Nintendo Wii are also supported. Unlike typical web-based IRCclients, Mibbit makes use of a client–server design model. The user interface is written in...
cross-platform IRC instant messaging gateway, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. BitlBee communicates with the user via the IRC protocol...
or on a third party server. These clients communicate with chat servers to transfer messages to other clients. IRC is mainly designed for group communication...
limitations. In a 2011 summary of four popular IRCclients, Techbuzz India described LeafChat as "one of the best" open-source clients with a "clean and simple"...
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