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- From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
- Subject: Re: Top 50 Killers (12/7/92-19/7/92)
- In-Reply-To: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu's message of Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:19:20 GMT
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- Organization: The Evil Fascist IRC Admins From Hell, Inc.
- References: <CKD.92Jul21121951@loiosh.eff.org>
- <1992Jul22.063803.19673@alf.uib.no> <CKD.92Jul22110054@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:11:35 GMT
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- Mandar> == Mandar Mukund Mirashi <mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu>
-
- Mandar> In article <CKD.92Jul22110054@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org
- Mandar> (Christopher Davis) writes:
-
- >Ove> == Ove Ruben R Olsen <buboo@alf.uib.no>
- >
- > Ove> Is this client using select () ; or fork () ; ?
- >
- >select(). The problems were in the screen interface handling code; on
- >one occasion, the word-wrap module went insane and started sending
- >output to the terminal as fast as it could. Since it was on a local
- >xterm process rather than a "real terminal", that was pretty fast.
- >(Unfortunately so fast that the window manager was getting cycle-starved
- >from all the updates the X server was trying to deal with.)
- >
- >Note to implementors: be very careful how you do word-wrap :)
-
- Mandar> I have been reading this newsgroup for some time now, and in
- Mandar> fact tried IRC only after I saw this newsgroup! But articles
- Mandar> like the one stated above continue to befuddle me. I am still
- Mandar> learning (and would like to learn more)...... There seems to be
- Mandar> an elite group of hackers (IRC ops?) who know the very inner
- Mandar> details of the workings of IRC (like ping times, routing, hubs,
- Mandar> and stuff like in the article above). Could any of you "gurus"
- Mandar> please enlighten me, and perhaps suggest a book where I could
- Mandar> learn more of IRC, routers, etc. I can program in C, Pascal,
- Mandar> etc.
-
- Don't take this the wrong way.
-
- RTFS. (Read The Fricken Source)
-
- A small part of the irc workings are documented in the "Comms" file
- that's packaged with the server source (avaliable at cs.bu.edu and other
- places around the world).
-
- What Ruben and Christopher were mentioning above were comments about
- client coding. Both of them have been/are involved in it and were
- discussing ways of implementing certain features.
-
- IRC knowledge isn't documented in books. To learn more, stop by
- #Twilight_Zone -- I wouldn't suggest talking, tho. Just sit back and see
- what goes on.
-
- --Helen
-
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