Enhanced Programmable ircII Client

The Enhanced Programmable ircII Client (ircII-EPIC) is an IRC client for Unix systems descended from the ircII client. EPIC was formed by the merger of two independent forks of ircII by Jeremy Nelson and Jake Khuon. EPIC is now maintained by EPIC Software Labs. Long ago, IRC was a unified system, with one dominant network (EFNet) and one dominant client (ircII). At around the same time, some folks decided to start up a rival IRC network (which became the Undernet) where they could run their own servers and do what they wanted, and other folks started a rival irc client (which became EPIC) where they could write bots that weren't crippled. There was overlap between the members of both groups, and ircII-EPIC and the Undernet grew up side-by-side for a couple of years.
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