[OT] IRC clients for Mac OS X?

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Sorry for this off-topic post. Am trying to find a good (free) IRC
client for Mac OS X. Yes, I know how to use google :wink: but it seems like
a bit of a wasteland out there, where most of the programs I’m finding
haven’t been updated for several years now.

Anyways, any suggestions from other Mac guys appreciated.

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X-Chat for Aqua.

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On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:14, Lyle Johnson wrote:

Sorry for this off-topic post. Am trying to find a good (free) IRC
client for Mac OS X. Yes, I know how to use google :wink: but it seems like
a bit of a wasteland out there, where most of the programs I’m finding
haven’t been updated for several years now.

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[courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]

In article vjr7rhmq9p7e7@corp.supernews.com,

Sorry for this off-topic post. Am trying to find a good (free) IRC
client for Mac OS X. Yes, I know how to use google :wink: but it seems like
a bit of a wasteland out there, where most of the programs I’m finding
haven’t been updated for several years now.

It depends on which kind of client you want: graphical or not?

If yes, the other suggestion of XChat-Aqua[1] is a good one. There is also a
project based on the text client irssi called irssix[2] which seems promising.

If no, I run irssi[3] under screen on another machine (using iTerm to access
it) and that rocks. Connecting and disconnecting from screen is worth the
text based system.

[1] http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.gizmolabs.org/wiki/Irssix/
[3] http://www.irssi.org/

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Lyle Johnson lyle@knology.net wrote:

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http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?
keywords=irc&os=macosx&button.x=0&button.y=0&order=date

Chris

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On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 8:14 PM, Lyle Johnson wrote:

Sorry for this off-topic post. Am trying to find a good (free) IRC
client for Mac OS X. Yes, I know how to use google :wink: but it seems
like a bit of a wasteland out there, where most of the programs I’m
finding haven’t been updated for several years now.

Anyways, any suggestions from other Mac guys appreciated.

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I’ve been pretty happy w/ AkwaIRC, a new Cocoa client:

http://akwairc.online.fr/akwairc.html

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Aredridel aredridel@nbtsc.org wrote:

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On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:14, Lyle Johnson wrote:

Sorry for this off-topic post. Am trying to find a good (free) IRC=20
client for Mac OS X. Yes, I know how to use google :wink: but it seems like=20
a bit of a wasteland out there, where most of the programs I’m finding=20
haven’t been updated for several years now.

X-Chat for Aqua.