ircio(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, let me introduce you to ircio — a quaint little program to make irc life PING free ✨ like literally, that's the whole pitch, and it ate.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe. this little program connects to the server (which you pass as arg 1) on the given port (which you pass as arg 2). no cap, that's just how it works 🫶

then it accepts input from stdin and sends it to that server. and likewise? it reads stuff sent from the server and sends it to stdout. it's giving... pipe. it's giving... relay. 💅

Simple? Yes, it is. 😌

But wait! There's more! 🔥

It also intercepts server PINGs and automatically responds to them. this is the main character moment fr fr. This frees up the process that starts ircio (such as IRCII) to pause without fear of being pooted off the net 👑✨

not me being the whole reason your irc session survives a lil nap 😭 the way that it just handles the PINGs for you so your parent process can chill — iconic behaviour, honestly.

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Michael Sandrof 💜

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• ircII(1)
• ircflush(1)

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's irccio-VERSION and yeah the manual name is ircio(1) (yes the version line spells it irccio with the extra c, we don't talk about it, it's part of the lore 🙈) — mwah, go make your irc life ping free 💖🎀✨