How to connect to a IRC channel

[ozUkoG1T]

Hi c++ forums,

I am coding a simple program which connects to a IRC channel and reads out messages. Please explain how i can do that ?

I can code a program which connects to a host but not to web servers or IRC servers o you see the problem.
Regards,
Cyberwarfare

[S G H]

These must be useful to you:

cpIRC - a IRC C++ Class http://www.nongnu.org/cpirc/
IRC RFC http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/rfc.html