1. Wei-Shiang Huang <huangwh@cs.nctu.edu.tw>
Introduce to IRC

2. What is IRC?

3. It means “Internet Relay Chat”

4. A form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat).
It’s a server and client model.
It has a lot of channels on a server.
Also provide private messages and file sharing functions.

6. If you want to use irc on unix-like platform…..

7. You will need irssi – the client of the future

8. Install An example on FreeBSD cd /usr/ports/irc/irssi/
make install clean
rehash

9. Basic Commands Connect to an irc server (ex:freenode)
/connect irc.freenode.net
Own your nickname
/nick maximum
Register your nickname
/msg NickServ REGISTER <password>
/msg NickServ IDENTIFY <password>
Join a channel
/join #Channel_name key (if necessary key)
Ex: /join #nctuNASA ILoveCSCC (For course purpose)

10. Basic Commands (Cont’d)
Private message
/msg <nickname> blah~~~~
Leave a channel
/wc
Close irssi
/quit
Switch channel key
Alt+<NUM>, Alt+<LEFT>, Alt+<RIGHT>

11. Irssi status

12. Irssi Configuration
If you have a configuration file, you can connect and join a channel automatically.
Configurate IRC Network
/NETWORK ADD freenode
Configurate IRC Server
/SERVER ADD -auto -network freenode irc.freenode.net
Add a Channel
/CHANNEL ADD –auto #nctuNASA freenode ILoveCSCC
Set Encoding
/SET term_charset UTF-8
/SET recode_transliterate ON
/SET recode_fallback UTF-8
/SET recode_out_default_charset UTF-8

13. Irssi Configuration (Cont’d)
Channel Encoding
/RECODE ADD #channel_name encode
Ex:/RECODE ADD #nctuNASA UTF-8
Autolog
/SET autolog_path ~/tmp/logs/irc-$tag-$0-%Y%m%d
Save configuration
/SAVE

14. Reference Irssi irssi UTF-8 Big5 中文轉換與設定
irssi UTF-8 Big5 中文轉換與設定
用 screen + irssi 上 irc 之鄉民版教學 (含Q&A)
NA IRC Channel:
#nctuNASA
Password: ILoveCSCC