[GNC] Fwd: Need help using Gnucash IRC to live chat

[Fran_3]

 Well, I think I finally got to the GnuCash IRC channel using the HexChat IRC client... da da ! :-)


    On Saturday, December 5, 2020, 6:59:39 PM EST, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:  
 
 HI,

On Sat, December 5, 2020 6:51 pm, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote:
>  1 - How do you browse there in Firefox? Does it have a built in IRC
> client?2 - I've installed HexChat and got on the FreeNode server but no
> gnucash channel there...
> When I attempt to join #gnucash I get this prompt...
> "The #gnucash irc channel is #gnucash on irc.gnome.org... please join us
> all there!"

this implies you joined a different IRC network -- probably freenode.
You need to join GIMPnet.

> 3 - Problem is I don't know how to navigate to irc.gnome.org... is that
> the name of an IRC chat server?

Yes.  AKA GIMPnet

> 4 - On mIRC they list "servers" and each server has channels...
> But on HexChat they list "Networks" which I assume is the same as
> "servers" in mIRC... right?

Generally, yes.

> I'll be darn'd if I know why I'm having such a hard time with this... but
> thanks for any help :-)

I used HexChat, and it says "GIMPnet / #gnucash"

-derek

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>    On Saturday, December 5, 2020, 1:34:01 PM EST, David Carlson
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Need help using Gnucash IRC to live chat
> To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>
>
> I rarely do IRC, but when I do I just browse there in Firefox, which seems
> to give me a reasonable view into the channel.
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 12:06 PM David Carlson
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> wrote:
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>> Derek is right.  Wiki IRC to find a list.
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 10:45 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>
>> > There are tons of free IRC clients.
>> > -derek
>> >
>> > On Sat, December 5, 2020 11:22 am, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote:
>> > > 1 - Must I buy mIRC to get to the Gnucash IRC server and channel?2 -
>> Are
>> > > their any free open source alternatives to mIRC?Thanks for any help.
>> > >
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