Quick start


Introduction

Once your kvirc is running , you may start to thing about connecting to an IRC network.
If you have knowledge about IRC you can jump directly to the last section of this page, otherwise read on.

What is irc?

Irc stands for Internet Relay Chat : it is an internet communication protocol.
The IRC protocol was developed around 1990 and it was first implemented as a means for users on a BBS to chat amongst themselves.
Now it supports a world-wide network of servers and clients.
A complete description of the IRC protocol is in the RFC1459 document.
Another complete guide to irc for beginners is the mIrc help file ,shipped with the mIrc windows client distribution.
You can find this help file on many irc-related www sites.

How to start?

You need to do only two things:
-Choose a nick and username.
-Choose a server.
-Click 'connect'.
To choose the username and nick , click the 'User settings' button in the toolbar , and fill in the 'nick' and 'username' filelds.
To choose a server click the 'Servers and proxy' button in the toolbar (or select it from the menu).
You will see a list of available servers.
Move the selected server to the top of the list.
An alternate way of selecting a server is using the /SERVER command.
Now just click the 'Connect' button.

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