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- EPIC is the (E)nhanced (P)rogrammable (I)RC-II (C)lient.
-
- EPIC is 100% backwards compatible with ircII because EPIC is ircII. EPIC
- was originally built upon the ircII 2.6 client and has maintained
- faithfulness to remain current up to the 2.8.2 release.
-
- EPIC is slightly larger than ircII-4.4 (about 40k on this system), but
- that is mostly because of the multitude of new features, the dual ANSI/K&R
- compliant function headers, and the large amount of re-written code in an
- attempt to make ircII faster, more efficient, and more powerful.
-
- EPIC is derived directly from IRC-II which is currently maintained by
- Matthew Green, and includes in whole all the additions included in the
- "plus" clients by Jeremy Nelson and all of the modifications in the
- "mod" clients by Jake Khuon. EPIC is currently maintained by EPIC
- Software Labs (ESL), comprised of Jeremy Nelson, Jake Kuhon, Robert Chady,
- and a cast of a dozen others.
-
- You can get a copy of the EPIC client via ftp from these mirrors:
- Not all sites will be always up to date, but many of them try.
-
- Site Directory Maintainer
- ftp.acronet.net /pub/ircii hop
- ftp.neato.org /pub/irc hop
- ftp.cdc.net /pub/users/crimedog/irc/epic Crimedog
- ftp.undernet.org /pub/irc/clients Mmmm
- ftp.ocslink.com /pub/epic CrowMan
-
- If you want to mirror the EPIC client, please drop an email to Jeremy Nelson
- (jnelson@acronet.net) telling him the host and directory where we can count
- on you to keep a copy of the current version of the EPIC client. The EPIC
- client takes about 450k, the help files take about 150k, and from time to
- time there are other patches that range from 5k to 30k in size.
-
- A mailing list for all things related to EPIC exists. Send email to
- majordomo@concentric.net with the words "subscribe ircii-epic" in the body
- (and nothing else!). This list exists for bug reports, discussion about and
- requests for new features, and anything else that has to do with EPIC.
-
- * EPIC is completely safe: There are no hidden trap doors. We value your
- trust, and will not do anything to abuse it.
-
- * EPIC is programmable: While ircII does contain a wide range of commands
- and functions, several glaring ommisions exist, which EPIC has attempted
- to fill, making the ircII language complete, precise, and efficient.
-
- * EPIC supports bots: We do not agree with those who feel that script bots
- are all the evil of irc, and we feel that scripts bots must not be
- squelched by those who have the stranglehold of control on irc. EPIC
- will support bots for as long as we maintain it.
-
- * EPIC is not anal retentive: EPIC allows you to do EVERYTHING that the
- irc protocol (RFC 1459) allows, and does not place any arbitrary
- restrictions upon you. EPIC does fully comply with the protocol as
- shipped and does not allow you to do anything that is deemed illegal by
- the protocol.
-
- * EPIC is complete: EPIC supplies over 100 various functions and commands
- which allow you to do things very quickly things that required very
- large or slow scripts in the past.
-
- * EPIC is fully ANSI-compliant: Most current versions of the stock client
- do have full prototyping for all functions, which has the same net effect
- as the work we have done. We, however, chose to provide both a "old"
- style (K&R) function header and a "new" style (ansi) function header with
- every function and provide every extern function a prototype in a header
- file.
-
- * EPIC is getting smaller and faster: Changes are continually underway to
- provide a faster client with more functionality while using less CPU
- cycles. While these may appear to be conflicting goals, the whole point
- of the EPIC project is to provide the best client that runs as well as
- can be managed.
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