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- From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
- Subject: Re: FAQ(beginner IRC prog) Bots for vms system
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.153424.1594@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
- References: <1992Sep10.044621.16533@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep10.144207.5660@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:34:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.144207.5660@news.iastate.edu> jnelson@iastate.edu (Jeremy F Nelson) writes:
- >Boy, unless you know something the rest of us dont, you CANT write a bot in VMS
- >because you dont have the load command.....
- >Sorry, but you need to find a U*IX account or something to start up a bot.
- >Also, you dont have any /on commands in VMS, and a bot without /on commmands
- >is pretty worthless.
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- The first irc bots predate IRC II and were not implemented using /on
- commands. A bot using the raw interface can be written on VMS about as
- easily as Unix (modulo all the bugs in VMS C... but I'd do it in
- VMS FORTRAN, natch.)
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