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+ The Internet Relay Chat Program - IRC
+
+ Author: Jeff Trim, April '89
+ Revised: Greg Lindahl, Oct '90 (gl8f@virginia.edu)
+ Re-Revised: Helen Rose, March '94 (hrose@kei.com)
+
+Have you ever wanted to talk with computer users in other parts of the
+world? Well guess what? You can! The network is called IRC and it is
+networked much over North America, Europe, and Asia, Oceania, and parts of
+Africa. This program is a substitution for talk(1), ytalk(1) and many
+other multiple talk programs you might have read about. When you are
+talking in IRC, everything you type will instantly be transmitted around
+the world to other users that might be watching their terminals at the
+time - they can then type something and RESPOND to your messages - and
+vise versa. I should warn you that the program can be very addictive once
+you begin to make friends and contacts on IRC ;-) especially when you
+learn how to cuss in 14 languages.
+
+Topics of discussion on IRC are varied, just like the topics of Usenet
+newsgroups are varied. Technical and political discussions are popular,
+especially when world events are in progress. IRC is also a way to expand
+your horizons, as people from many countries and cultures are on, 24 hours
+a day. Most conversations are in English, but there are always places to
+chat in German, Japanese, and Finnish, and occasionally other languages.
+
+ How To Get IRC (technical)
+
+IRC is a fully-distributed client-server system, much like
+NNTP-Usenet, with several clients availble in C and elisp. You may ftp
+documentation and clients from any of the following sites:
+
+many kinds of clients (C, elisp, X11, VMS, REXX for VM, MSDOS, Macintosh):
+cs.bu.edu:/irc/clients
+ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu:/pub/irc
+ftp.funet.fi:/pub/unix/irc
+coombs.anu.edu.au:/pub/irc
+
+If you have any questions about IRC installation, write to hrose@kei.com.
+