ircio(1)

NAME
ircio - A quaint little program to make irc life PING free

DESCRIPTION
This little program connects to the server (given as arg 1) on the given port (given as arg 2). It then accepts input from stdin and sends it to that server. Likewise, it reads stuff sent from the server and sends it to stdout. Simple? Yes, it is. But wait! There's more! It also intercepts server PINGs and automatically responds to them. This frees up the process that starts ircio (such as IRCII) to pause without fear of being pooted off the net.

ircio is not intended to be run by itself. It's started by ircII's -S command-line option.

BUGS
ircio doesn't work at all with SSL-enabled IRC connections. It also doesn't work properly with the libera.chat network even without SSL: you can connect, but you'll get disconnected before the MOTD is sent.

There are better ways to solve the problem ircio solves, such as screen(1), tmux(1), or just multiple X terminals. There's no need to suspend ircII in such environments.

AUTHOR
    Michael Sandrof

SEE ALSO
ircII(1), ircflush(1)