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-
- --- 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.
-
-