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- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Subject: Re: RTF[M,S] - Re: Top 50 Killers (12/7/92-19/7/92)
- Message-ID: <avalon.711974199@coombs>
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- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <CKD.92Jul21121951@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul22.063803.19673@alf.uib.no> <CKD.92Jul22110054@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul23.181920.17926@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <avalon.711947810@sorokin> <14ojdsINNpjk@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 10:36:39 GMT
-
- S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
-
- >In <avalon.711947810@sorokin> avalon@sorokin.anu.edu.au writes:
-
- >> Since the manual is rather brief, RTFS.
- >> Thats how to learn the inner details of the IRC programs.
- >> The reast of the knowledge on routing, etc, comes from being
- >> 'net-aware' (having maps of networks, knowing where you are
- >> in relation to everyone else, what is good/fast, what is slow/bad,
- >> etc).
- >>
- >> Both take time.
- >>
- >> avalon
-
- >All that is true (exists a *manual*?), but I can tell that life for
- >client-coders (in this case) could be much easier if there were
- >- a reasonably small, consistent IRC protocol and
- >- *documentation* on this (not just comments in sources about
- >'hopefully having grasped all messages')
-
- The protocol is consistant (except for a few typos :). Its just that
- clients dont expect things to change within the protocol (like adding
- a ':' in somewhere it wasnt expected).
- From the looks of it, IrcII 2.2 has got the parser right (finally!).
- The basic parser in the server isnt complex (just dealing with the
- individual commands :). Most things should be listed in the Comms file
- as Helen mentioned in another article.
-
- >I have heard that some folks are developing version 3 of irc, being
- >incompatible with 2.7. Please, at least *consider* writing an RFC
- >about it!
-
- Hahahaha...there hasnt been much said/done about this lately although
- people have been thinking about it (ie a mention was made about using
- multicast IP and just clients).
-
-