accidental IRC - A native command line IRC client.

[NiLuJe]

Here goes. Completely untested, because I'm lazy .

For a K4 & PW1, use the binary in the K5 folder.

[Kartoffelr]

Sorry NiLuJe, i have no idea how to use that.
Makefile, compile? What files do i need, where is the configuration gone?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Kartoffelr

Sorry NiLuJe, i have no idea how to use that.
Makefile, compile? What files do i need, where is the configuration gone?

Use it the same way as the directions for the original build.

Makefile, Compile? - - Not required, the binary is in the directory named in the post of that attachment.

[NiLuJe]

I'm assuming you're using the KUAL extension, which is in another thread, but that's irrelevant.

Just replace the current extensions/irc/accirc binary with the appropriate one, as knc1 pointed out.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Here goes. Completely untested, because I'm lazy .

For a K4 & PW1, use the binary in the K5 folder.

Ah, phooey, 1am and nothing else to read . . . .
So I read the source code (for the first time).

The application attempts to be non-blocking while servicing multiple connections.
Only (Open)SSL is used in blocking mode
AND
(Open)SSL is not coded to handle multiple connections in blocking mode (I.E: the single SSL_CTX is not "multiple use").

The (Open)SSL parts of the code should be written using non-blocking mode (and with the appropriate tests and callbacks).
https://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG10

Translation:
Application can handle multiple channels, on multiple servers, but only one of them can be SSL.
Making more than a single SSL connection at once will lead to strange and wonderful connection errors.
I don't **think** it will segfault, but the connections will be garbage.

Edit: (after seven hours of sleep) - -
Don't anyone panic, this is known to work on the Kindles.
Meanwhile, I will re-read this source code while mind is closer to being "in gear" rather than dreaming.

[NiLuJe]

And another set of binaries, from the latest upstream release.

[Kartoffelr]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

And another set of binaries, from the latest upstream release.

Thanks for the update!

Well, i can start this with kterm, navigating to the binary and do ./accirc.
Application starts and shows some lines:

(no servers)
(no channels)
(no channel topic)
----------------------------------------------

At the botton there is a live unix time counter.

edit:
Okay, i think i managed to connect to an irc network (i see no status messages but the first line changes to the IRC domain), but then:

1407190345 accirc: Err: unknown command "join"

and when i try to change (or see) my nickname

accirc: Err: unknown command "nick"

I checked the accirc.man on the computer, but its no help for me.

All i did on the kindle disk was to create a folder and place the accirc binary for K5 (i have the PW1) in it. I think i already missed something here.

[NiLuJe]

@Kartoffelr: because those don't need a wrapper function in the client. Send raw commands with the ':' prefix instead.

(And do read the manpage, it's in there ).

[Kartoffelr]

Well, i tried this, too.
When i do :join #channel, screen gets a refresh and i am back at (no servers).

[NiLuJe]

@Kartoffelr: Might need to set the user quartet properly (cf. :user in the manpage).

[Kartoffelr]

Sorry, i have no idea what to set there or what the "user quartet" is at all.

Maybe non-experts like me are not yet the target audience for accirc

[neutrak]

wow sorry everybody I had no idea people were still wanting this; huge thanks to NiLuJe for compiling recent versions.

so a couple things; SSL support isn't strictly necessary; it will compile and run without it, and even if compiled with ssl support you can use the /connect command instead of the /sconnect command in order to not use an SSL connect (though I'll take a look at non-blocking for that when I get a chance).

the "alias" command lets you alias userspace / commands into raw : commands, just FYI.

again yeah this was a personal project and wasn't really expected to have any users but for the moment, it's worth noting a little bit about how IRC works so you can get started.

So when you connect to an irc server it requires two things, a nick and a user line; the nick line is the name you want to have (can't give you a name if you don't send one), and a user line which it doesn't really care about you just have to set /something/; if you don't send these things then the IRC server will kick you off right away. Below is the bare minimum to get connected.

/connect irc.mr.gd 6667
:nick a_user
:user 1 2 3 4
:join #kindle-dev


The config file has recently changed so if you put these lines in a config.rc you'll want to wait for a hello message from the server before doing a join, a config.rc file might look like the following:

/connect irc.mr.gd 6667
:nick a_user
:user 1 2 3 4
/post 001
:join #kindle-dev


I'll try to support this better in the future, it's something of an old project but I still use it so it still gets development from time to time, I'm going to throw it on github shortly in case anyone notices something I did wrong.

Again, sorry for the poor support, I really didn't realize people were using this these days.

[Glorfindel]

How do I put the binary on my K4 and how do I start it (i.e. what else do I need after JB)?

[Glorfindel]

wait, let me guess, there are instructions in the zip

[Glorfindel]

*checks*