This document was written as an aid to help new users to BitchX to get started. Parts of this document have been taken from the original faq written by Xavier and IceBreak, credit goes where nesscessry. If anything is not covered in the FAQ you could try joining the BitchX support channel on EFnet, #BitchX and asking for help. You can also try emailing the current author of this FAQ at chris@uk.logics.com.
BitchX is a VERY heavily modified ircII client. It includes many things such as built in CDCC (XDCC) offering, built in flood protection, etc. It is easier to script things in BitchX because unlike plain, vanilla ircII, half the script does not have to be devoted to changing the appearance of ircII. It also includes many other new features, such as port scanning, a CD player, a mail client, etc.
BitchX has lots of sites devoted to it, currently these are the ones that currently serve it. These sites are likely to go up and down due to the vast ammounts of traffic they generate.
ftp://ftp.uk.logics.com/pub/irc/clients/BitchX/
ftp://of.the-b.org
ftp://ftp.bitchx.com
ftp://ftp.bitchx.org
ftp://squid.newwave.net/pub/irc/clients/The source file name is called ircii-pana-xx.tar.gz. If the ftp or www sites
are not working, your best chance is to go to the irc and join #BitchX on
EFnet, and do /ctcp #bitchx cdcc list.
You need about 1 megabyte of free space on a system with a UNIX OS. Your terminal program should support ANSI if you want BitchX to show color and high ascii to be displayed correctly. Each copy of BitchX loaded requires about 600-1000kb of memory.
BitchX now works with almost all UNIX OS's and also Windows 32-bit. This is the current list of OSes that BitchX has been reported working on: