Unable to get android to download IRC files.
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neetrobot · 2018-04-27 06:50

I've tried using suggested clients. The books show up in the search,
but I cannot get them to download using the browser nor clients.

Edit: Someone helped me and AndroIRC has worked.

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dumbdoghound · 2018-04-27 17:34

Could you explain how. I've tried for ages. Tried many different
things. Still no joy. It's a common complaint and if you know how that
would be great. PM if need be.

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neetrobot · 2018-04-27 19:24

With AndroIRC I didn't realize that after adding the server, I added
irc.irchighway.net, that you type the command /join #ebooks

Then it got me to where everyone is typing out their commands to bring
up lists to download. I typed @search Anne Rice

Then it would bring up how many results that had, like over 600. So
then I typed Interview With A Vampire instead for less results, then
it prompted me to accept a download as using the @search is a bot
thing, and I downloaded a compressed file by accepting that listed
everyone that I could download it from. I picked one, posted it, it
didn't work as the person wasn't there, so I tried another after a few
minutes (don't want to get banned for flooding or have your ISP put on
ignore list) and then it worked. You need something like winzip, or
winrar, or whatever, any compression software, to open it, then read
the txt then choose. I downloaded UB reader for android to read the
epub files I chose from the lists, but there were multiple file types,
mobi, pdf I think. It was very confusing to me, I kept giving up but
someone kind of walked me through it as I made mistakes.

Typing /whois (((then there name here))) into the channel tells you
about the person you're trying to download from, but if they're not
there, then the client tells you in another window that, I think.

I only barely know how to use IRC so I'm not the person to ask this.
My main mistake is not knowing the commands like /whois and /join. I
thought at first AndroIRC did not let you choose the channel, but you
must type  the command /join #(((the channel's name here)))

Anyway, after you copy and past a filename with the person's irc name
behind it, they start with exclamation marks, from the list you
download first, they end with how big the file is, tells you the type
of file, you past it into the ebooks channel window and wait to see if
it prompts you to accept to download the file.

It works something like that. The tutorials I've read are much more
complex, I'm sure I don't understand how it works at all, but it
worked, and I downloaded a couple books.

It's probably better to use more than one server but I didn't bother
yet with other ones, they have guides for that you can look up to see
others and the channel names.

Edit: the ((( ))) you don't actually type out, I was just using that
to show that something goes there of course, and should have used
brackets. /join #[name of channel without brackets]

Edit: the person that helped me actually hosts files and was there
talking to me to make sure an application would work. I've read it
depends on devices, some people's tablets will work then a phone
won't, with these apps. So it's best for him to have sat there and
sent me a test file to make sure it could even download files, and so
that's what happened. I'm using android 5.0, that is probably
important to know. It's a cheap RCA tablet also.

Edit:https://wiki.inspircd.org/Commands#.2FUSERS  this place shows
commands, but they seem misleading, to me anyway. I figure typing out
the /whois works but /name [channel] and /USERS (typed into a
channel?) make more sense from what this says, to see who's there. But
In don't know. I have not much experience.

I don't really know. But

tl;dr: type out a search with an at symbol behind search after /join
#ebooks you paste it in there as you see others do, then it should
prompt you to download the txt list of things to possibly download,
that's how you know it's working.

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darkscreener · 2018-05-02 22:03

For me Androirc was working and then stopped I went around the play
store looking and downloading all the free irc clients with no luck.
Long story short someone on reddit told me to use "IRC for android"
and it worked  unfortunately it's a paid app.

Things to know or to concider if you are on a mobile network and not
using wifi some mobile companies block irc (I don't know why) also DCC
SEND requires to establish a connection to your device and this could
be blocked due to firewalls on the cellular network

Try yaaic app (did not work for me but you could be lucky)

Good luck