Re: IRC request

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From: Jeremy Friesner
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 23:09

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In article <slrn44jc7kv.ifi.hkantola@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI (Heikki Kantola) writes:
> Juha Vanhanen <somebody@clinet.fi> provided the following
> for the eyes of comp.sys.amiga.networking:
> >
> >I would also be interested in an IRC-server running
> >on AmiTCP under AmigaDOS.
> 
> That is impossible as the ircd relies much on fork() and other Unix
> specific things. And secondly IMHO there's quite enough IRC servers
> around already...

Well obviously it wouldn't be a straight recompile, but on a platform where
the _entire_ _Mac_ _OS_ has been ported to be an Amiga-native program, I
find it hard to believe that a measly IRC server is anywhere near
"impossible"!!!

Jeremy

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From: jfriesne@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner)
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Subject: Re: IRC request
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 23:09:34
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