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BitchX is a free IRC client that has been regarded as the most popular ircII-based IRC client. The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client. It was converted to a program in its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in 2004. It is written in C and is a TUI application utilizing ncurses. GTK+ toolkit support has been dropped. It works on all Unix-like operating systems, and is distributed under a BSD license. It was originally based on ircII-EPIC, and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client. I

Key facts

Software.name
BitchX
Software.logo
BitchX logo - ACiD.png
Software.caption
BitchX ANSI splash screen (one of several in rotation).
Software.developer
Colten Edwards (panasync) and Kevin Easton (caf)
Software.operating_system
Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows, OS X
Software.programming language
C
Software.genre
IRC client
Software.license
BSD 3-clause license

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Official website
www.bitchx.org
Image
BitchX screenshot 01.png
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software version identifier
1.2
Commons category
BitchX
source code repository URL
git://git.code.sf.net/p/bitchx/git
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BitchX is a free IRC client that has been regarded as the most popular ircII-based IRC client. The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client. It was converted to a program in its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in 2004. It is written in C and is a TUI application utilizing ncurses. GTK+ toolkit support has been dropped. It works on all Unix-like operating systems, and is distributed under a BSD license. It was originally based on ircII-EPIC, and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client. It supports IPv6, multiple servers and SSL, and a subset of UTF-8 (characters contained in ISO-8859-1) with an unofficial patch.

On several occasions, BitchX has been noted to be a popular IRC client for Unix-like systems.

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