51. Where can I get more info?

IRC RFC
The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Protocol is explained and defined in the Request for Comments (RFC) number 1459 written by the founder of IRC J. Oikarinen and D. Reed. This RFC is available from

http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/rfc1459.txt

IRC Primer

A good, simple and basic introduction to IRC is found in the IRC Primer by Nicolas Pioch. Get it by FTP from:

ftp://cs-ftp.bu.edu/irc/support/IRCprimer1.1.txt

http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/IRC/hints.html

   also read   
      http://www.thefreedmans.net/irctutor/

IRC FAQ
The IRC Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by Helen Trillian Rose provides excellent information on a lot of IRC issues. The IRC FAQ is available by FTP at:

http://irchelp.org/irchelp/altircfaq.html

   also read
      http://irchelp.org/irchelp/misc/

Undernet IRC Primer and FAQ
The Undernet IRC FAQ consists of 2 parts. The initial version was written by Paul Grant and later versions by Mandar M. Mirashi. The latest version can always be found at:

http://www.user-com.undernet.org/documents/uprimer.html

http://www.user-com.undernet.org/documents/unetfaq1.html

http://www.user-com.undernet.org/documents/unetfaq2.html

WWW
On the world wide web a lot of additional info can be easily found. Do some simple searches on Yahoo or Webcrawler to find tons of info !!

http://irchelp.org/irchelp/

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chatting/IRC/

Books about IRC   http://www.mirc.co.uk/books.html
IRC-Junkie      http://www.irc-junkie.org/
IRC News      http://www.ircnews.com/
ChaTcIRCuiT      http://www.chatcircuit.com/
UnderCurrents      http://www.user-com.undernet.org/newsletter/

You can also visit some Windows IRC clients World Wide Web pages to get more info :
mIRC         http://www.mirc.com/
mIRC         http://www.mirc.co.uk/
mIRC         http://www.nip.nl/mirc/
mIRC (German site)   http://www.mirc-help.de/
Virc         http://www.megalith.co.uk/virc/
Pirch         http://www.pirchat.com/

Usenet
The Usenet alt.irc.* newsgroups provide a lot of information to both newbies and experienced people on IRC. I can highly recommend 'lurking' there for a while!

Books about IRC and mIRC.
A good set of books on IRC and IRC clients like mIRC, Virc and Pirch is found on mIRC's main website at http://www.mirc.co.uk/books.html

IRC
On IRC you will find several channels intended to help you with simple as well as more difficult problems. You could give #irchelp, #ircnewbies, #new2irc, #newbies and #wasteland a try. Also most of the popular Windows based IRC clients have their own IRC channel. Check out #mirc, #virc and #wsirc. Please don't demand help though; we are all volunteers there.

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