# Irc

<http://9front.org/extra/rc/> has wcirc	and

<http://9front.org/extra/src/> has irc7	and ircs

there are probably newer versions of these  in	sources,  or
shithub, or other places

<http://code.9front.org/hg/irc7/>

A few TUI IRC clients like  irssi  and	weechat	 can  easily
handle 100s of networks	with 1000s of channels.

Imagine	for a moment 9 had an irc filesystem, similar to the
existing ircfs projects	[for inferno][1] and [for linux][2].
A general purpose tool can be run inside acme to keep  track
of any changes within a	tree hierarchy.	All recently written
files can be highlighted inside	acme, and the most  recently
updated	 file  can  be jumped to, and a	tail of	the last few
lines displayed. This would be a general purpose replacement
not  just  for	irssi  and  weechat, but would be useful for
monitoring any type of communications (email, xmpp,  matrix)
as well	as system logs.

 [1]: https://github.com/Plan9-Archive/ircfs-limbo
 [2]:
rcfs-limbo