PIRCH

PIRCH98 running in Windows XP.

Developer(s)| Northwest Computer Services
Stable release| 1.0.1.1190 (January 1, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-01-01)) [±]
Operating system| Windows
Type| IRC client
License| Shareware[1]

PIRCH or pIRCh is a shareware Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client[2] published by Northwest Computer Services. Its name is an acronym - PolarGeek's IRC Hack.[3]

The last version of the program, known as PIRCH98, was released in 1998.[2] PIRCH has in the past been considered to be the number-two Windows IRC client behind mIRC.[2]

PIRCH inspired the creation of Vortec IRC due to a lack of software updates.[4]

## Contents

* 1 Reception
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Reception

Forrest Stroud's[who?] 1998 review of Pirch stated it has "great selection of features and is an IRC client that will especially appeal to novice IRC users", such as the capability of simultaneous multiple server connections. But Stroud noted, "PIRCH is relatively slow in listing channels for servers and also lacks the capability to filter the number of channels based on the number of users or the ability to sort based on the name of a channel".[5]

In 1999, Joe Barr of LinuxWorld referred to Pirch as a "nice Windows client".[6]

## See also

* Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients

## References

1. ↑ "Pirch Download". http://pirchat.com/licwarr.html. [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Charalabidis, Alex (December 15, 1999). "Windows IRC Clients: Pirch". The Book of IRC: The Ultimate Guide to Internet Relay Chat (1st ed.). San Francisco, California: No Starch Press. pp. 36–37. ISBN 1-886411-29-8.
3. ↑ Boyce, Jim (October 1998). Using and Upgrading PCs (2nd ed.). Que Publishing. p. 502. ISBN 0-7897-1607-0.
4. ↑ Kirkland, John. "About Vortec IRC". http://www.vortecirc.com/about/. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
5. ↑ Stroud, Forrest (July 13, 1998). "Pirch (1.0.1.1190)". cwsapps.com. WinPlanet.com. http://www.winplanet.com/file/11644.htm.
6. ↑ Barr, Joe (June 15, 1999). "Opinion: Get online for (free) Linux support!". CNN (from LinuxWorld). http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/16/linux.idg/index.html.

## External links

*   * PIRCH FAQ
*   * PIRCH at Curlie

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* t
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

General topics

Common terms|

* BNC
* Bot
* Channel
* DoS attack
* Channel Operator
* Client
* Flood
* Hostmask
* IRC
* Netsplit
* Network
* Operator
* Script
* Server
* Services
* Takeover
* vhost

Lists and comparisons|

* List of IRC commands
* Comparison of IRC bots
* Comparison of IRC clients
* Comparison of mobile IRC clients
* Comparison of IRC daemons

Related protocols|

* IRC
* IRCX
* MSN Chat
* P10
* CTCP
* DCC
* XDCC
* Ident

See also|

* IRC subculture
* Jarkko Oikarinen

Clients (comparison)

macOS|

* Colloquy
* Fire
* Homer (Mac OS)
* Ircle
* Linkinus
* MacIrssi
* Snak

Microsoft Windows|

* Bersirc
* mIRC
* Microsoft Comic Chat
* PIRCH
* Shareaza
* Visual IRC

Unix-like|

* ircII

Cross-platform|

* BitchX
* Irssi
* Konversation
* KVIrc
* LeafChat
* naim
* Smuxi
* WeeChat
* XChat
* PJIRC
* Quassel IRC
* IceChat

Multi-IM|

* Centericq
* Empathy
* Kopete
* Miranda IM
* Pidgin
* Trillian

Web-based|

* CGI
* PJIRC
* Mibbit

Web browser components|

* ChatZilla
* Mozilla Application Suite

Library and plug-ins|

* ERC
* rcirc

Bots (comparison)

* Eggdrop
* Infobot
* Robot9000

Bouncers, Gateways and Proxies

* BitlBee
* ZNC

Daemons (comparison)

* IRCd
* ircu
* UnrealIRCd

Networks

* DALnet
* EFnet
* Freenode
* GameSurge
* IRC@2ch
* IRCnet
* OFTC
* QuakeNet
* Rizon
* RusNet
* SlashNET
* Undernet

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