This IRC client in 40 lines of shell script worked fine on my K3, but as I recall, I think I had to fix a typo in it:
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail...ry/000480.html
I like it because it fits nicely into the spirit of my eink algorithmic art script demos, which also push shell scripting to absurd limits:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=172182