IrcII
{{short description|Oldest still active developed IRC-Client}}
{{lowercase title}}
{{Infobox software
| title =
| name = ircII
| logo =
| screenshot = Ircii.png
| screenshot size = 220px
| caption = ircII client session
| collapsible =
| author = Michael Sandrof
| developer = Matthew R. Green, ircII project
| released = {{start date and age|1989}}[https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html History of IRC] daniel.haxx.se
| discontinued =
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q291940|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q291940|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q291940|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q291940|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = C
| operating system = Unix-like
| platform =
| size = 577 kB
| language = English
| genre = IRC client
| licence = BSD-3-Clause
| website = {{URL|http://www.eterna23.net/ircii/}}
}}
ircII (pronounced i-r-c-two or irk-two,{{cite web
| url = http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircii/
| title = IRC clients primarily for the Unix shell
| access-date = November 10, 2010
| date = May 9, 2004
| publisher = irchelp.org
| quote = Note on the pronunciation of ircII: Some of us like to call it "eye-are-see-two". However, the other main variant, "irk-two" is probably historically more accurate. It's also commonly called "urk-ee" which is most definitely wrong. Feel free to disagree with us, we're not going to argue the point to death. What's pretty certain is that it is "two" and not "ee".
| last1 = Levine
| first1 = John R.
| author-link1 = John R. Levine
| last2 = Young
| first2 = Margaret Levine
| title = More Internet for Dummies
| edition = 3rd
| date = May 9, 1997
| publisher = Hungry Minds
| isbn = 0-7645-0135-6
| page = 150
}} and sometimes referred to as IRC client, second edition{{cite book |last = Hahn
|first = Harley
|title = The Internet Complete Reference
|edition = 2nd
|date = January 1996
|publisher = McGraw-Hill Osborne
|isbn = 0-07-882138-X
|page = [https://archive.org/details/harleyhahnsinter00hahn/page/525 525]
|quote = The irc program is sometimes called ircII (IRC client, second edition) [...]
|url-access = registration
|url = https://archive.org/details/harleyhahnsinter00hahn/page/525
}}) is a free, open-source Unix IRC and ICB client written in C. Initially released in the late 1980s, it is the oldest IRC client still maintained.{{cite book
| last = Schenk
| first = Thomas
| title = Red Hat Linux System Administration Unleashed
| date = July 7, 2000
| publisher = Sams
| isbn = 0-672-31755-9
| quote = It is probably the oldest and most commonly used IRC client in the Linux/UNIX community.
| last = Piccard
| first = Paul
|author2=Brian Baskin |author3=George Spillman |author4=Marcus Sachs
| title = Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise
| edition = 1st
| date = May 1, 2005
| publisher = Syngress
| isbn = 1-59749-017-2
| page = 428
| chapter = Common IRC Clients by OS
| quote = The ircII client is possibly the oldest usable client available today.
}}
History
Several other UNIX IRC clients, including BitchX, EPIC, and ScrollZ, were originally forks of ircII. It was the first client to implement file transfer capabilities over IRC.{{cite book
| last = Piccard
| first = Paul
|author2=Brian Baskin |author3=George Spillman |author4=Marcus Sachs
| title = Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise
| edition = 1st
| date = May 1, 2005
| publisher = Syngress
| isbn = 1-59749-017-2
| page = 386
| chapter = IRC Networks and Security
| quote = The authors of the ircII software package originally pioneered file transfers over IRC.
}} The CTCP protocol was implemented by Michael Sandrof in 1990 for version 2.1.See the 'NOTES' and 'source/ctcp.c' files included with [http://download.ircii.org/historical/unsorted/clients/unix/ircii/ircii-2.1.4e.tar.gz ircii-2.1.4e.tar.gz]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The DCC protocol was implemented by Troy Rollo in 1991 for version 2.1.2,See the 'UPDATES' and 'source/dcc.c' files included with [http://download.ircii.org/historical/unsorted/clients/unix/ircii/ircii-2.1.4e.tar.gz ircii-2.1.4e.tar.gz]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and was never intended to be portable to other IRC clients.{{cite newsgroup
| title = /dcc
| author = Troy Rollo
| date = January 20, 1993
| newsgroup = alt.irc
|message-id= 1993Jan20.222051.1484@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU
| url = https://groups.google.com/group/alt.irc/msg/fc5de46e023d5ffe
| access-date = November 10, 2010
| url = http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/dccspec.html
| title = A description of the DCC protocol
| access-date = November 10, 2010
| last = Rollo
| first = Troy
| publisher = irchelp.org
| quote = The first comment I should make is that the DCC protocol was never designed to be portable to clients other than IRCII. As such I take no responsibility for it being difficult to implement for other clients.
}}
Features
ircII is written in the C programming language and implements a termcap, text-mode, user interface. Encrypted Transport Layer Security connections to IRC servers are established with the OpenSSL library.
|url=http://ircii.warped.com/ircii-current/ircii/source/ssl.c
|title=ssl.c
|date=2021-03-14
|website=
|access-date=2021-06-24
}} The concept of file transfers over IRC networks was first implemented by the authors of ircII. The client was the first to implement both the Client-to-client protocol (CTCP) and the Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) protocol. The application has been promoted as being "fast, stable, lightweight, portable, and easily backgrounded."
See also
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
References
{{Reflist|2}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.eterna23.net/ircii/}}
{{IRC clients}}
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