The Portable Freeware Collection - K-Visual-IRC Client

K-Visual-IRC Client V3.2.6 Dev
Suggested by MasterGoodheart - Updated by webfork on 7 Aug 2010
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Category: Internet - IRC Clients (10)

Synopsis: K-Visual-IRC Client (KVIrc) is an IRC client. It comes with a sophisticated scripting language that allows you to implement automated reactions to network events. It supports multi-server connection, notify and ignore lists, standard + extended DCC (with resume), SOCKv4, SOCKSv5 and HTTP proxies etc.

Alternately, a KVIrc Portable is available.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract:

Download the installer and extract using Universal Extractor.
Delete $COMMONFILES, $PLUGINSDIR and [NSIS].nsi.
Create two subfolders called help and themes.
From the $_OUTDIR folder, move en to help, silverirc to themes, modules to config, scriptexamples to doc and cap to modules. Delete $_OUTDIR, which should be empty now.
Launch the program by double-clicking kvirc.exe. You will be presented with a welcome wizard.
Untick the "Make KVIrc default IRC Client" box and click next.
Select the "All settings in shared program folder (portable)" option and click next. That should make your copy of KVIrc portable.

Unicode support: Yes

License: GPLv2

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

Posted comments:

User: Although the cleanest and most feature rich of all the portable IRC clients available, unfortunately KV has quite a few bugs. Though the UNIX version of the program is still active, the Windows version of this program has not been updated much as its last stable release was in Feb '05. It doesn't look like those are going to get cleared up.

What could have been a fantastic, open source alternative to the commercial mIRC doesn't appear to have many advocates. [2008-02-17 01:20]

Stable Release is GOOO: There is a new stable release, ver 3.4 [2008-04-30 18:43]

Carbonize: In latest version the folder is called $[31] and not $_OUTDIR other than that the instructions are the same. [2008-06-13 03:02]

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