Teleprinter Compatible IRC Client?
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UselessGuy23 · 2023-07-11 08:23

I have a TI Silent 700 Teleprinter and wish to use an IRC client with
it. Any recommendations? As it is a teletype, the client must

* Not use curses/tput/anything but ASCII text
* Support multiple channels and switching between them
* Use or support \^H backspace

I KNOW this is niche, so is most of what I do.

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justjanne · 2023-07-11 11:52

Have you considered just connecting to irc directly? IRC is just a
serial protocol, you can connect with telnet, and the teleprinter
should work just fine with that. It's not the best user experience,
but it should work just fine.

`telnet irc.libera.chat 6667`

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UselessGuy23 · 2023-07-11 12:07

I get "Bitlbee IRCd initialized , please go on." It wants me to
register, but I already have an account.

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ozjd · 2023-07-12 06:05

Registration usually involves:


NICK \\r\\n
USER  \* \* :\\r\\n

I wouldn't advise using your real name in the real name field.


You don't want to do it manually, unless you want to respond to ping
requests every few minutes.