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IRC - chat client #537

Open larsbrinkhoff opened 7 years ago

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 years ago

Write an IRC client. Or a gateway between CHAT (#519) and IRC.

larsbrinkhoff commented 4 years ago

I'm trying to brainstorm different ways an IRC client can interact with an ITS user. It wouldn't necessarily have to be a program the user enters and stays inside for the duration of the IRC session.

It could possibly work like the :SEND command. Or it could be like a comlink. Users on the IRC channel could be ITS users. Or the IRC channel could be represented as a network host.

larsbrinkhoff commented 4 years ago

Or IRC could be a network host, and channels would be users on that host.

ams commented 4 years ago

Why not over Chaos? Then us LispM hackers can piggyback on that. I'm thinking that the NCP would be running a IRC service, this connects to some server ... and then one can use SEND like commands to send messages. This would mean that the user would be the host serving the IRC service.

larsbrinkhoff commented 4 years ago

Sure! When brainstorming, all ideas are good! Except the obviously bad ones, of course.

larsbrinkhoff commented 4 years ago

@techfury90 suggests a Knight TV client with some graphical elements.

larsbrinkhoff commented 4 years ago

I wrote some code to open a TCP connection and send some iRC commands. So far, it can register the nick name pdp10, join the PDP-10 channel, and send a message. It's on the lars/irc branch.