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Short: IRC intuition DNet client (dnetlib.o needed)
--- Amiga IRC ---
(DNET Version)
Version 1.0
November 25, 1992
by Rick Kent
Internet: rkent@sparc1.csubak.edu
AOL: RickK32
INTRODUCTION
------------
What is IRC? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. The original IRC was
designed under Unix for use on the Internet. It allows people from all
over the world to join in live discussion groups and talk to each other
in a multi-user chat system. Since its conception, the popularity of IRC
has grown tremendously. At present, there are usually hundreds of people
online in IRC with well over a hundred live discussion groups. Although
originally designed under Unix, there are now IRC clients written for other
platforms as well such as the PC and Macintosh, but until now there was no
client package for the Amiga.
WHAT DO I NEED TO RUN IRC?
--------------------------
To run this IRC client package you must have the following:
- Workbench 2.0 (Version 37 or higher)
- DNET Software (Originally designed by Matt Dillon): DNET is a
serial network communications protocol which allows you to
run a network connection between two Amiga's or an Amiga and
a Unix station (similar to SLIP but less complex).
- A Unix shell account which has direct access to the Internet
(The Unix version of DNET must be installed on this machine).
- The DNET INTERLINK module (included).
- reqtools.library (included). Note: Reqtools is Copyright (c)
Nico Francois.
WHY DO I NEED DNET?
-------------------
In order to connect to an IRC server machine on the Internet you must
have some sort of Internet access. In a standard setup, to use IRC
you would have to have your PC, Mac, Amiga, or whatever connected
directly into the Internet. The number of Amiga machines with this
kind of direct access is extrememely low. This is where DNET comes
in. DNET allows you to start up a serial network connection between
your Amiga and a Unix machine. If the Unix machine you connect to
is on the Internet, then it becomes possible to access Internet
services. Once the DNET INTERLINK module is installed on both the
Amiga and Unix machine, then your Amiga has a psuedo-connection to
the Internet. Properly written DNET clients can then open a BSD
socket-like connection to any site on the Internet. Thus, the Amiga
IRC client software simply opens a socket connection directly to an
IRC server machine (of your choice) on the Internet.
Note: Although this version requires DNET, there is a chance that I may
design another version in the future that will use a standard TCP/IP
connection. At this time however, I do not have access to an Amiga
that is directly connected into the internet via TCP/IP.
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