BitchX
As a new community member to AppleInsider, I'd love to become involved and meet the members. As such I was looking for a good IRC client for the Mac and came across BitchX, talk about confusing! I'm familiar with Trillian and such having used the PC as my main source of communication but making a 100% conversion to the Mac is posing problems with my technical knowledge. I'd love to learn how to compile stuff so I can run open source software and support the movement, but as a video editor and budding sound engineer, I have no knowledge of the Terminal interface. If anyone knows of a site or perhaps you yourself have knowledge of how to compile BitchX to run in Terminal it would be most appreciated.
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There are two ways to install programmes in fink, one is by the fink commander GUI and the other is by the terminal. If you run it in the terminal all you do is type :- fink install bitchx and it will do the rest.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10047
That one is called iRC. It's really really easy to use.
1)Downloaded and installed Fink
2)Upgraded Fink
3)Downloaded BitchX (via fink install BitchX, what an awesome thing! Just type it in and it downloads it for you, haha)
4)Got BitchX running in Terminal
Here's my dilemma, BitchX has additional stuff that Terminal doesn't provide, I'm just wondering if I need to run BitchX in X11 and if so how do I go about doing that? I went into X11 and added the App with the command sw/bin/bitchx but the command does nothing when I type it in. Any insight would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
BTW, if you're looking for Appleinsider members to chat with, you're better off getting on iChat.