[HECnet] HILANT IRC Gateway

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-10-01 15:21, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>
>> On 1 Oct 2016, at 15:54, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-10-01 12:39, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Just for the hell of it I’ve set up an IRC channel on irc.rizon.net (because they have a fairly nice Web chat interface on top of being quite stable) called #hecnet_chat.
>>>
>>> I’ve also set up an account on LABVAX that will connect you to it using the username CHAT.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any problems (and yes, I’m aware that the IRC program crashes on exit, I have no idea why, but aside from that it seems to work OK).
>>
>> And just FTI - There is an IRC client for RSX... Should be usable here I think... :-)
>>
>
> Cool - point it at irc.rizon.net:6667, #hecnet_chat (can you make like a DCL file to auto-connect?)

You can use some logical names to make it automatic.
IRC$HOST, IRC$PORT, IRC$NICK and IRC$CMD. The last is a one liner that 
is executed as if you typed it. Typically a join then.

> I mean PHONE is cool and all but I frankly get tired of watching people type :)

Pros and cons. As usual. I actually like the more interactive form of 
PHONE. Batch processing is so much the 60s. Interactive computing should 
be interactive. :-)

	Johnny

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