Anthere,

I can't attest to how good it is because I've never used it, but I hear IRCle being mentioned from time to time. It works on all kinds of MacOS versions (their site says): http://www.ircle.com/download.shtml

Good luck!

- Julian Ostrow (X13)

Hi

Would someone have an idea for me (how to fix the bug) or a new IRC client to recommand me (I am on macintosh OS9, netscape 7.02 and no,

I

cant upgrade to a newer system) ?

I was previously on chatzilla. I had what I thought a bug (I could not close tabs of personal

channels).

I went to freenode to seek from help and they recommanded I upgraded

my

chatzilla. Looking in the new versions, I discovered it was not a

bug,

but... a non existent feature, which was fixed in most recent

versions.

I hence upgraded chatzilla. http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/ Now, when I start chatzilla (I later tried all versions I could

find), I

have an error message, and the application is not working anymore.

I installed with pain Shadow IRC (which was the first irc I used, but

is

by far less confortable to use) and contacted the chatzilla irc. I discussed during 2 hours with Silver, one of the big guy for

chatzilla.

We concluded that for some reason, I had a file missing nslFile Protocole Handler component.

I understood that file location was changed in 2002, so it was likely that chatzilla was looking at the new location, while my browser

being

borderline 2002-2003, could still have it at the ancient location (chatzilla does not handle "yet" the old location, but Silver said he might do the patch for the next release).

However, the problem is that we were not able to find the file at all.

When I evaluate in the javascript window whether

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/protocol;1?

name=file"].createInstance (Components.interfaces.nsIFileProtocolHandler).getFileFromURLSpec

or Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"].getService

(Components.interfaces.nsIIOService).getFileFromURLSpec

neither of the two exist.

What is quite curious is that chatzilla was previously working on an

old

version. But when I installed it, I remember quite well that the

newer

version had the same bug. This suggest that the file concerned

existed

then, and that older versions of chatzilla were able to manage

somehow.

I entirely reinstalled my computer about 1 month ago; so might have "lost" something ??? I already reinstalled netscape/mozilla and chatzilla entirely

yesterday

night, but the file still not there.

Does that suggest any thing to someone ?

Alternatively, who has a decent and free irc client to recommand me ? Shadow is really unconfortable to use.

Meanwhile, I think I won't be much on IRC any more. Which is somehow problematic for communication.

Only benefit is that it will help cure my wikiholism :-)

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