1. The full-featured Perl IRC client sirc, the Perl IRC client, is a full-featured package to let you chat with anyone, anywhere in the world. sirc has all the features you need in an IRC client -- DCC, logging, and a huge ability to be customized are all part of the package. With Perl, it's quite simple to extend sirc's capabilities -- the programming interface is well-documented and well-developed. Several example scripts are included in /usr/lib/sirc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT