Website - IRC Chat page added

Website - IRC Chat page added

[Harold L Hunt II]

I added a new page to the website to point people to our IRC chat room:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/chat.html

I am finding chat very useful for discussing development (watch the 
channel if you are interested).

I would also like to a see a larger group of people monitoring #cygwinx 
for questions and answering them in an interactive fashion.  It is often 
easier to have a brief conversation with someone than it is to write 
long emails outlining all possibilities for their problem.

See you in #cygwinx!

Harold

Re: Website - IRC Chat page added

[Harold L Hunt II]

By the way, if you need a good IRC client for Windows, check out XChat:

http://www.xchat.org/

It works quite well under Windows and automates lots of tasks like 
connecting, opening channels, and authorizing your saved nickname (/msg 
NickServ IDENTIFY password).

We have two new people in the channel now... lets get that up to 20!  :)

Harold

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I added a new page to the website to point people to our IRC chat room:
> 
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/chat.html
> 
> I am finding chat very useful for discussing development (watch the 
> channel if you are interested).
> 
> I would also like to a see a larger group of people monitoring #cygwinx 
> for questions and answering them in an interactive fashion.  It is often 
> easier to have a brief conversation with someone than it is to write 
> long emails outlining all possibilities for their problem.
> 
> See you in #cygwinx!
> 
> Harold
> 

Re: Website - IRC Chat page added

[Igor Pechtchanski]

People can also install the Cygwin "naim" package and use it in its "nirc"
incarnation.  "naim" is a configurable ncurses-based client, *and* it's
part of Cygwin. :-)
	Igor

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> By the way, if you need a good IRC client for Windows, check out XChat:
>
> http://www.xchat.org/
>
> It works quite well under Windows and automates lots of tasks like
> connecting, opening channels, and authorizing your saved nickname (/msg
> NickServ IDENTIFY password).
>
> We have two new people in the channel now... lets get that up to 20!  :)
>
> Harold
>
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > I added a new page to the website to point people to our IRC chat room:
> >
> > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/chat.html
> >
> > I am finding chat very useful for discussing development (watch the
> > channel if you are interested).
> >
> > I would also like to a see a larger group of people monitoring #cygwinx
> > for questions and answering them in an interactive fashion.  It is often
> > easier to have a brief conversation with someone than it is to write
> > long emails outlining all possibilities for their problem.
> >
> > See you in #cygwinx!
> >
> > Harold

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Re: Website - IRC Chat page added

[Harold L Hunt II]

Igor,

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> People can also install the Cygwin "naim" package and use it in its "nirc"
> incarnation.  "naim" is a configurable ncurses-based client, *and* it's
> part of Cygwin. :-)
> 	Igor

Good point.  I had not tried it myself.

But back to the topic at hand.  Why aren't you lurking in #cygwinx 
yet?!?  :)

Harold