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Notes to self:
wserv and ircio are executed correctly (in the new libexec/ircII dir),
tested them with the following results:
wserv seems to work fine, in the brief bit of testing I did
with it (/window create and related commands).
ircio (the -S option) doesn't work with libera.chat: with SSL
it fails to connect at all, and without SSL it connects but the
server closes the connection before (or during?) sending the
MOTD. I thought it might be due to the 4K buffer size in ircio,
but the MOTD on libera is a lot shorter than that.
I haven't tried other IRC nets with -S, because I don't actually think
anyone cares about it (other ircII forked clients like BitchX and Epic
never even included it).
--
The help and support scripts are installed in /usr/share/irc. I
thought about changing this to /usr/share/ircII, but don't really see
the point.
--
Compiling with -Wall, we get:
/tmp/SBo/ircii/source/hook.c:292:40: warning: %3.3u directive
output may be truncated writing between 3 and 10 bytes into a region
of size 4 [-Wformat-truncation=]
On further investigation, it's a bogus warning: yes, 3.3%u could
produce up to 10 digits... but before line 292, there's code that
rejects any number above 999. This means sprintf will write 3 bytes of
digits followed by the terminating \0.
--
We compile with ncurses, not termcap... but the code in term.c uses
termcap functions. These are actually provided by ncurses doing
termcap emulation. See curs_termcap(3x). In practice this works fine,
and lets us use terminals like rxvt-unicode, for which terminfo
entries exist but are too new to be included in crusty old termcap.