Re: [Contiki-developers] IRC-client?

[Jens A. <ra...@sk...>]

On 30 Sep 2003 19:43 CEST you wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 21:22, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > A lot of people have been asking about a Contiki IRC client - is there
> > anyone out there who are working on one? I think that it would be a
> > great app to have, and even though I don't know much about IRC myself, I
> > would love the feeling of being able to run IRC directly from my C64 :-)
> 
> it should actually be dead easy to build a simple irc client on top of the 
> existing simpletelnet app.... actually some people (including myself :)) have
> used the simpletelnet program to use irc :=)
> 
> gpz
> 
> ps: if anyone want to give it a try... on www.mirc.com there is a link to the 
> RFC, and also some other docs about "raw server messages" (which is all you 
> want to know :=))

Hi
I worked on one a while back. The main problem I hit was being able to send data at any time, not just when being called by uip...
I didn't find a way around (my C knowledge isn't very good). Unfortunately I don't have the source anymore (it's on a diff computer in a basement quite a bit away). It was vaguely useable though...Can connect and stay connected (respond to server pings).
But don't have it anymore.
But as Groepaz says it is very easy to make the main parts of it.
for a basic irc client you only really need to send the USER and NICK commands (With right params of course) and respond to PING :<random number/text> with PONG :<same random number/text>
And then of course /msg, /me and parsing of incoming messages...nothing else is really needed...
(Of course, if it needs to be a truly graphical client and not just a BitchX/epic/etc style client it needs a lot more (such as listbox-type controls(userlist) and rightclick menus)

Regards,
Jens Andersen