* What is IrcFaces? IrcFaces tries to be an interface between irc (ircII 2.1.5h or ircII 2.2.*) and faces. The idea is that it allows the user to have a faces window for each channel she is on, a window that constantly displays a face for each participant in the channel. * What do I need to use ircfaces? You need the following: - you need to be using X (the X Windows System) - the faces program (available from moose.cs.indiana.edu:pub/faces/) (current version is 1.6.1, you may need to grab & apply the patch file available in moose.cs.indiana.edu:pub/faces/) - perl (if it is not available on your system, use archie to find it) - the ircfaces*.tar.Z file (where * stands for the latest version) - faces bitmaps, if you don't have them yet (you can start with the logos.tar.Z file at moose.cs.indiana.edu:pub/faces/) * Note: installing ircfaces is not extremely easy... if only because it needs faces and perl, which are not standard programs available on all computers, so you may have to install these as well (although perl is becoming more and more standard, i guess) The bottom line is: don't think: "i'll grab the stuff and it will be running within 5 minutes", i don't think it is that easy (but i would like to be surprised :-) It might be worth the trouble, though ;-) The following text is from the README in the ircfacesV*.tar.Z file: * How to install IrcFaces? - check that perl and faces are available on your system. - select the right version of the ircfaces ircII script for you, depending on the version of your ircII client. - put the chosen ircfaces ircII script somewhere, where ircII will find it. Likely places are either the ircII scripts library, or your own .irc directory. - the faces-path in the ircfaces.sh should be edited to reflect your faces installation. - the #! line at the start of the ircfaces.pl script should be edited according to your perl installation. - you may have to change the second line of the ircfaces.pl script, to point it to your perl libarary (the line: push(@INC, ...). - you may have to create the sys/wait.ph (and at least on a sun4, also the sys/stdtypes.ph required by the sys/wait.ph file) files in the perl lib directory, or somehere where the ircfaces.pl script will be able to find them (it uses the perl 'require' command). Those files can be created using the h2ph program from the perl distribution. sunos4.1.1 versions of these file are in this distribution. - the ircfaces.sh and ircfaces.pl should be placed somewhere in a bin directory in your path, or you should edit the ircfaces and ircfaces.sh scripts, to put in 'hard' paths (to ircfaces.{sh,pl}) - you may have to edit the `$facesprog = 'setting in the perl script, eg. if your faces program is called by a different name. NOTE: this faces call is supposed to call the faces script (from the scripts in the faces distribution) that is the interface to the faces binary (and not directly the faces binary). * More Info? Problems? Questions? Bugs? Fixes? Added Features? Send mail to Axel Belinfante