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'''ircII''' is a [[Unix]] [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] [[Client (computing)|client]] that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form.

[[Image:Ircii.png|right|thumb|ircII screen capture]]

Designed to run in a [[Command line interface|text-mode]] environment, '''ircII''' is not pretty -- it has no sounds, graphics, menus, pop-ups, etc. It is, however, fast, stable, lightweight, portable, and easily backgrounded using virtual terminals such as Unix "[[GNU Screen|screen]]".

As the [[Unix]] and [[Unix-like]] systems evolved and increased in popularity, more, newer [[Internet relay chat|IRC]] clients have been developed for them as well. Perhaps the most common are [[Enhanced Programmable ircII Client|EPIC]], [[BitchX]] and [[ScrollZ]], all of them variants of the ircII client with greater functionality built into them at some stage in their development.

At one time, the ircII client set the standard against which all other clients were developed and measured. While this may still hold true to some extent today, the [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] client [[mIRC]] has largely taken over that position, and ircII itself is under pressure from a newer text-mode client called [[irssi]].

==See also==
*[[List of IRC clients]]
*[[Comparison of IRC clients]]⏎
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==External links==
*[http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ Home page]
*[http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircii/ Installation, Scripts]
*[http://irc.pages.de/ircII/ Script updates] from the original author of the ircII scripts

[[Category:IRC clients for Unix-like systems]]
[[Category:Free software]]

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