The Book of IRC: The Ultimate Guide to Internet Relay Chat

By Alex Charalabidis

Addicted to IRC? Just getting started? This book is the ultimate guide to chatting over the Internet using Internet Relay Chat. It gives you everything you need to know about IRC--from the basics to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886411298
• ISBN13: 9781886411296
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Guide for beginners through to advanced users

Very well written and illustrated guide that starts with the very basics and takes you all of the way through to advanced use. The IRC protocol and client side commands are explored in depth. Numerous clients for Window, OS X, and Unix are covered. This basic coverage, which is about two-thirds of the book ends with an excellent chapter on managing channels. The advanced chapters cover installing an IRC server, using DCC, and some advanced security issues. This book sets a comprehensive foundation of knowledge for IRC which is then supplemented by O'Reilly's IRC Hacks book. Beginners looking to get seriously into IRC will want to buy this book. More advanced users will want to look at the coverage of their areas of interest to make sure it's worth the investment.

This is *the* book of internet relay chat.

An truly outstanding book. I have used IRC for many years now, and although I do not consider myself to be an expert-user I definitely know my way around. This book is really the only comprehensize "A - Z" source on IRC, and it is wonderfully-written as both an introductory text for IRC newbies as well as an in-depth compendium for power users. Even after using IRC for so long I could not believe how much I learned, particularly the last chapter which deals with server-side configurations.Alex Charalabidis uses his expert knowledge of IRC to explain the network's subcultural quirks and expectations in all its many instances, and provides information about IRC on the whole in an amusing, almost rhythmical deliverance. In my opinion, a must read for all IRC users. Even Nick Burns, the company computer guy, suggests it! YOUR WELCOME!!!

Great IRC "User's Manual"

This book is written by an experienced IRC user and operator and I can't think of anyone better qualified to write this book. Additionally, his sense of humor makes this book enjoyable to read as you find out about all the features of IRC. This book is useful for anyone who spends time on IRC, from the "newbies" to veteran IRC "addicts" like me. I wish there had been a book like this around six years ago, when I logged on to my first IRC channel.Among the subjects the authors covers include a brief summary of IRC and its history, IRC clients for UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh machines, how to connect to an IRC server, finding various channels and people on IRC, and also a good description about the dreaded "net splits" and lag you will eventually run into on IRC. I just wish the author had gone into more detail about ways to deal with server splits and lag. Maybe the next edition will cover that.More and more users are logging on to IRC all the time (which probably explains why it seems there's always those "splits" I mentioned) and this book is an excellent guide to what you can do on IRC and what to watch out for.

Brilliant

Great book, I have met Alex on IRC a while back and found him to be one of the few people on irc who has the ability to explain things without the need to use too many technical terms, Now he finally managed to put it on paper. Its a great book for beginners and experienced users alike. Good stories about early days of irc, making it quiet amusing as well.

Really the ultimate guide

This book is pretty big for its low prize. On 350 pages there is first a quick overview how Internet works, so its really good for a "newbie". Later on, the book goes more into the detail about clients simply explained, and later on how to setup your own IRC server, which you miss in most other IRC books. The Appendixes and tables round it up to THE book of IRC.