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net::irc::connection

Connection(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   Connection(3pm)

NAME

       Net::IRC::Connection - Object-oriented interface to a single IRC connection

SYNOPSIS

       Hard hat area: This section under construction.

DESCRIPTION

       This documentation is a subset of the main Net::IRC documentation. If you haven't already, please "perldoc Net::IRC" before continuing.

       Net::IRC::Connection defines a class whose instances are individual connections to a single IRC server. Several Net::IRC::Connection
       objects may be handled simultaneously by one Net::IRC object.

METHOD DESCRIPTIONS

       This section is under construction, but hopefully will be finally written up by the next release. Please see the "irctest" script and the
       source for details about this module.

AUTHORS

       Conceived and initially developed by Greg Bacon <gbacon@adtran.com> and Dennis Taylor <dennis@funkplanet.com>.

       Ideas and large amounts of code donated by Nat "King" Torkington <gnat@frii.com>.

       Currently being hacked on, hacked up, and worked over by the members of the Net::IRC developers mailing list. For details, see
       http://www.execpc.com/~corbeau/irc/list.html .

URL

       Up-to-date source and information about the Net::IRC project can be found at http://netirc.betterbox.net/ .

SEE ALSO

       o   perl(1).

       o   RFC 1459: The Internet Relay Chat Protocol

       o   http://www.irchelp.org/, home of fine IRC resources.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-01-24							   Connection(3pm)

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