"Emacs comes with a nice terminal emulator called ansi-term. Using M-x ansi-term, you can run shells and other terminal programs from within emacs, and the emulation is good enough even for 'graphical' console programs. For example, I am using the mutt mailer and slrn news reader with ansi-term.
Read more »An Introduction to IRC on Linux for Beginners
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An article intended for beginners about what IRC is, basic commands and use, and the basics on how to use three clients (XChat, Irssi, Konversation) for IRC.
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