EPIC is the (E)nhanced (P)rogrammable (I)RC-II (C)lient. EPIC4 is a new direction in ircII development. No longer is EPIC 100% backwards compatable with ircII, but instead we have chosen to find those things where compatability is undesirable, and fix them. No gratuitous incompatabilities have been added, but lots of new code has been added to make EPIC the best ircII client we could make. EPIC4 is derived directly from EPIC3, which was itself derived from IRC-II which is currently maintained by Matthew Green, and includes in whole all the additions included in the "plus" clients by Jeremy Nelson and all of the modifications in the "mod" clients by Jake Khuon. EPIC is currently maintained by EPIC Software Labs (ESL), comprised of Jeremy Nelson, Jake Kuhon, Robert Chady, and a cast of a dozen others. If you're interested in a list of pertinent links, try http://links.epicsol.org/ You can get a copy of the EPIC client via ftp from these mirrors: Not all sites will be always up to date, but many of them try. (Last updated on November 10, 1998) Site Directory Maintainer ----------------- ------------------------------------ ------------ --- More recent documented mirrors --- epicsol.org [1] /pub/ircii hop ftp.epicsol.org [1] /pub/ircii hop ftp.magenet.net /pub/epic bruns ftp.freenet.de /pub/ftp.epicsol.org/pub Michael Haardt ftp.leguin.org.uk /pub/mirrors/ftp.epicsol.org/ is --- Older mirrors, may not exist any more --- broken.com /pub/epic da5id mud.pl /pub/epic Marcin ftp.linuxberg.com ??? Rob ftp.mirror.uk.uu.net /pub/epic Ben Hutchinson ftp.chillin.org /pub/epic mdmbkr http://www.snafu.de/~kl/epic/ Kasi ftp.sanyusan.se /pub/epic synker ftp.bitchx.com /pub/epic Mhacker ftp.burken.nu /pub/irc/clients/epic SpaceDump totem.fix.no /pub/mirrors/epic nickerne http://www.ircii.org /ircii/clients/epic mirror.pipex.net /pub/epic Ben ftp.levitate.net /pub/epic Chord ftp.nut-shell.com /pub/mirrors/epic Psycho ftp.parodius.com /pub/mirrors/epic Koitsu pubftp.abyss.net /mirror/epic edgewise http://www.min.net/~douglas/ircii strobe ftp.funet.fi /pub/unix/networking/irc/ircII/epic Vesa clients.undernet.org /pub/irc/clients/unix/ircii Mmmm cupid.suninternet.com /pub/ircii Joe Ottinger ftp.sergei.cc /pub/irc/epic Mattias Karlsson ftp.unixpower.org /pub/epic Alan P. [1] This is the master site for all EPIC releases. All mirrors are advised to mirror ftp.epicsol.org if they want to have all current releases. [2] This is the master site for all production EPIC releases. All mirrors are advised to mirror ftp.neato.org if they only want to mirror current production releases. If you want to mirror the EPIC client, please drop an email to Jeremy Nelson (jnelson@acronet.net) telling him the host and directory where we can count on you to keep a copy of the current version of the EPIC client. The EPIC client takes about 500k, the help files take about 150k, and from time to time there are other patches that range from 5k to 30k in size. A good, complete mirror of the EPIC FTP site will be about 15 megs. EPIC is completely safe: There are no hidden trap doors. We value your trust, and will not do anything to abuse it. EPIC is programmable: While ircII does contain a wide range of commands and functions, several glaring ommisions exist, which EPIC has attempted to fill, making the ircII language complete, precise, and efficient. EPIC supports bots: We do not agree with those who feel that script bots are all the evil of irc, and we feel that scripts bots must not be squelched by those who have the stranglehold of control on irc. EPIC will support bots for as long as we maintain it. EPIC is not anal retentive: EPIC allows you to do EVERYTHING that the irc protocol (RFC 1459) allows, and does not place any arbitrary restrictions upon you. EPIC *does* fully comply with the protocol as shipped and does not allow you to do anything that is deemed illegal by the protocol. EPIC is complete: EPIC supplies over 100 various functions and commands which allow you to do things very quickly that required very large or slow scripts in the past. EPIC uses ANSI function declarations. Most current versions of the stock client do have full prototyping for all functions, which has the same net effect as the work we have done. We, however, chose to move all our function headers to the ANSI style, rather than relying on K&R with function prototypes. We provide a function declaration in a header file for every extern function. EPIC is getting smaller and faster. Changes are continually underway to provide a faster client with more functionality while using less CPU cycles. While these may appear to be conflicting goals, the whole point of the EPIC project is to provide the best client that runs as well as can be managed. The EPIC mailing list is ircii-epic@concentric.net. Its run by a majordomo. The list should be considered *low traffic*, and is used primarily for product release announcements and public bug reports. Everything else should be taken to private email.