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Irssi – text mode chatting client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

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ERC – Emacs Internet Relay Chat client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs. It supports multiple channel-buffers, nick completion, and more.

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ScrollZ – advanced IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ScrollZ is an advanced IRC client based on ircII. It adds features found in ircII scripts like Toolz, PhoEniX, GargOyle or Lice.

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EPIC – console based IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

EPIC (Enhanced Programmable ircII Client) is a free and open source console based IRC client based on ircII.

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BarnOwl – curses-based IM client forked from the ​ktools owl project

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

BarnOwl is a curses-based instant messenger client.The software is forked from the ktools owl project. It’s free and open source software.

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10 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.

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tiny – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

tiny is an IRC client for the console written in the Rust programming language. It’s published under the MIT license.

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catgirl – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

catgirl is a terminal IRC client. It requires ncurses and libtls, provided by either LibreTLS (for OpenSSL) or by LibreSSL.

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ircc – minimal curses IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ircc is a simple IRC client. It’s written in the C programming language and requires the ncurses library to compile.

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glirc – advanced console IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

glirc is built around a philosophy that the client maintains a model of the IRC connection state and provides various views of that model.

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