From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:32:04 +0000
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>>Is there an IRC client and/or server yet? RFC1459 IIRC. In unix with
>>netcat and a decent shell a rustic IRC client is a couple screens of code.

beto had an irc client for acme for the old system,
and since irc is apparently text-based that seems a good
thing to try again.  no doubt irc has developed realaudio, its own network graphics,
and quasi-o/s plug-ins with added xml extensions and ircscript meanwhile.