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ii (IRC it; not to be confused with IrcII
IrcII

ircII is a Free and open source software Unix Internet Relay Chat client written in C . It is the oldest IRC client still maintained. Its initial release was in the late 1980s, soon after the creation of IRC....
) is a FIFO
FIFO

FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out, an abstraction in ways of organizing and manipulation of data relative to time and prioritization....
 and filesystem-based IRC client created by the wmii
Wmii

wmii is a dynamic tiling window manager window manager for X11. It supports classic and dynamic window management with extended Computer keyboard, computer mouse, and filesystem based remote control....
 development team. It creates an IRC directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every directory a FIFO in file and a normal out file is created. It is licensed under the MIT license
MIT License

The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
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The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out files contain the server messages.






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ii (IRC it; not to be confused with IrcII
IrcII

ircII is a Free and open source software Unix Internet Relay Chat client written in C . It is the oldest IRC client still maintained. Its initial release was in the late 1980s, soon after the creation of IRC....
) is a FIFO
FIFO

FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out, an abstraction in ways of organizing and manipulation of data relative to time and prioritization....
 and filesystem-based IRC client created by the wmii
Wmii

wmii is a dynamic tiling window manager window manager for X11. It supports classic and dynamic window management with extended Computer keyboard, computer mouse, and filesystem based remote control....
 development team. It creates an IRC directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every directory a FIFO in file and a normal out file is created. It is licensed under the MIT license
MIT License

The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
.

The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out files contain the server messages. For every channel and every nick name there are related in and out files created. This allows IRC communication from command line and adheres to the Unix philosophy
Unix philosophy

The Unix philosophy is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to developing computer software based on the experience of leading developers of the Unix operating system....
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See also

  • wmii
    Wmii

    wmii is a dynamic tiling window manager window manager for X11. It supports classic and dynamic window management with extended Computer keyboard, computer mouse, and filesystem based remote control....


External links

  • - The ii homepage.
  • - a simple web frontend for ii