IRC Clients for Unix
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| Name |
Reviews |
Home page |
| birc |
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An open source, ncurses front ended IRC client. Multi-Server... |
| BitchX |
**** |
A derivative of ircII and EPIC, with many features and good support... |
| blackened |
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Blackened, the author says, offers a number of useful features and... |
| ccirc |
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[LOST] An irc client written in ksh scripts (needs ksh or zsh).... |
| colirc |
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An old (1996?) patch to ircII to add colour support. |
| colorirc |
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Another patch to ircII to add colour support; cf. colirc. |
| E3WD |
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[defunct] A version of EPIC 3 by White Dragon, adding colours and DCC ... |
| EPIC |
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A popular text-based Unix IRC client. Scripting is powerful; see... |
| ERC |
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ERC is an IRC client for Emacs/XEmacs. It supports multiple channel... |
| IRCaman |
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Needs Tcl/Tk 8.0.3. This appears to be little more than a front end... |
| ircbase |
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ircbase allows you to establish a persistent IRC server connection on ... |
| IRChat |
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An irc client for emacs |
| ircII |
** |
A very basic Unix IRC client. Most other IRC clients branch from... |
| IRCIT |
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[links broken??] IRCIT (IRC for the Information Terrorists) is an... |
| irssi |
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irssi is a text-based IRC client; it used to use Gtk+ and work with... |
| kiwi |
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emacs client, 1996 |
| Magik |
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[defunct] (obsoleted by birc) Magik is an open source ncurses-based... |
| NetHirc |
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Perl-based; NetHirc is a bad pun and a Net::IRC client. It is... |
| ninja |
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ircII-based, with non-blocking connects, MIRC style DCC RESUME, cloak ... |
| nirc |
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[defunct?] "Nirc is nowhere near functional enough to use, by any... |
| phpIRC |
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phpIRC is an IRC layer for PHP which enables you to include IRC... |
| pIRC |
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[defunct?] Simple Perl-based IRC client supporting ANSI... |
| Rhapsody IRC |
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[GPL] Rhapsody is an IRC client for Unix operating systems intended... |
| Scirc |
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ScIRC is a simple IRC client written in Guile Scheme that allows... |
| scrollz |
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A Unix IRC client available in binary format only. Beware that some... |
| SHIRC! |
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An IRC client written as a shell script with sed and awk.... |
| sic |
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curses-based with screen(1)-like ability to detach. No... |
| sirc |
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sirc is programmed in Perl and is one of the smallest of client with... |
| SlIRC |
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uses the "slang" libraries. |
| TIRC |
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TIRC - Token's IRC client; also exists in German, I think. |
| TuxIRC |
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[gone?] A command-line client written in Perl, as a learning... |
| uIRC |
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simple client for Linux |
| WeeChat |
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WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC... |
| ZenIRC |
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Emacs IRC client, includes DCC support, multiple IRC sessions in... |
