A Blessed IRC Client
ircom is a comand-line IRC client implemented without curses. The client is designed with slow-to-update serial terminals and physical teletypes in mind. All of it's output is printed line-by-line, with no screen refreshes. Curses-based clients update the entire screen with every line, which is problematic on low-capability vintage hardware.
The control scheme is modeled after SDF's commode script.
irCOMMODE (c)2023 - Version .27
c - clear d - dump out of ircom e - emote
g - goto a room h - command help k - kick a user
l - list open rooms n - change nick p - peek into room
P - leave current room q - quit commode r - room history
R - extended history s - send private w - who is in the room
Y - yank into room < - surf rooms backward > - surf rooms forward
/ - issue raw command
To begin TALK MODE, press [SPACE]
Building requires libircclient:
git clone https://michaelShriver/libircclient.git
cd libircclient
./configure --enable-shared --enable-openssl
make && sudo make install
On BSD-based systems, including macos, you will need to also install argp-standalone.
Clone the source repo and make:
git clone https://github.com/michaelshriver/ircom
make && make install
Download and install libircclient locally from source:
git clone https://michaelShriver/libircclient.git
cd libircclient
./configure --enable-shared --enable-openssl --prefix=$HOME/.local --libdir=$HOME/.local/lib
make && make install
Update env variables: (consider adding these to your .profile)
export C_INCLUDE_PATH="$C_INCLUDE_PATH:$HOME/.local/include"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/.local/lib"
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"
And then build ircom:
git clone https://github.com/michaelShriver/ircom.git
cd ircom
make && make install
Usage: ircom [-te?V] [-n nick] [-p port] [-r real name] [-u username]
[--nick=nick] [--port=port] [--realname=real name] [--enable-tls]
[--username=username] [--verify] [--help] [--usage] [--version]
server channel