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<title>irssi</title>
<subtitle>text-mode IRC client</subtitle>

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http://www.irssi.org/</entry>

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irssi
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Timo Sirainen
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1999
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<para>
Irssi is a modular IRC text-mode client for UNIX with some nice features:
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		Multiserver friendly - Irssi has clearly the best 
		support for handling multiple server connections.  
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		Channel automation - You can specify what channels to join 
		to immediately after connected to some server or IRC network. 
	</para></listitem>   
	<listitem><para>
		Tab completing anything - You can complete lots of things with
		tab: nicks, commands, command -options, file names, settings, 
		text format names, channels and server names.  
	</para></listitem>   
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		Excellent logging - You can log any way you want and as 
		easily or hard as you want.  
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		Themes: you can customize the client with 
		a wide variety of themes. Take a look at 
		<ulink url="http://www.irssi.org/?page=themes">
			http://www.irssi.org/?page=themes
		</ulink>.
	</para></listitem>   
	<listitem><para>
		Perl Scripts Support: you can write your own perl script
		or download them from 
		<ulink url="http://www.irssi.org/?page=plugins">
			http://www.irssi.org/?page=plugins
		</ulink>.
	</para></listitem>   
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