Comments on: Avarice for IRC/XDCC Bot IRC Searching

By: znonymous

znonymous — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:59:23 +0000

hey guys, if your having problems getting the server.ini in the right format ‘cuz it keeps opening as text in your internet browser, just let it dowload and display as text, then press VIEW SOURCE. It will open a new text file in the perfect format. Cut and paste THAT into a text file and save it as server.ini and you won’t have to screw with editing it ! Tried in IE and Opera.

By: AH

AH — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:24:27 +0000

Whats up with only ~200 servers?

By: 110100100

110100100 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:03:53 +0000

@ruudy - Right click on the channel you want to chat in and choose “open in external client”. This will only work if you have a properly configured IRC client already installed. Avarice is NOT a chat client. Not even close.

By: 110100100

110100100 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:01:45 +0000

The newest version of Avarice, by default, uses the daily spidered ini on avarice.cc. It can be configured to any address. The spidered ini has suffered from the demise of ane of the leading XDCC sites, and my lack of extra time. There are also a couple of utilities that allow you to merge several inis together. Good Luck!

By: sharky

sharky — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:03:21 +0000

Unsure about the servers.ini file. The one will the “Install” is from March, 2007, but apparently they’re supposed to be updating it on a daily basis now (at the site). Check back to see if there are changes to the file size. The old .INI file definitely didn’t connect to all the servers in the list. If the new one runs at 100% (or close to it) it would still be superior to an INI file that is larger but has many servers that don’t work. Try ‘em both and let us know how it worked.

As a side note, there’s a newer version of Avarice on their site - unsure which INI file it uses, but obviously it’s not the old version.

By: Creamfilling

Creamfilling — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:30:18 +0000

So uh I dont know how outdated this info is but I copied the stuff off the website (server.ini) and it seemed to be MUCH smaller (29kb) than the one I already had in the folder (192kb or something)

Replace vs dont replace?

By: sharky

sharky — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:44:53 +0000

Not sure…when I tried it, I connected to 112 of 136, but that was with a SERVERS.INI file that was a few days older than the one you just got. I’ll try it out again when I get home…

—Sharky

By: ZAxk

ZAxk — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:04:03 +0000

Just tried this application and downloaded todays server.ini after 20 mminutes of running it says connected to 27 of 136 networks. Is that low a # of networks normal.

By: ruudy

ruudy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:00:52 +0000

Will anyone please let me know how to join the irc channels in “Avarice”. There is no tab space to write something like /join, /msg …. etc. on the network tab to join fav channels.

By: 110100100

110100100 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:01:13 +0000

Avarice version 1.7 is now available. The biggest new feature is to allow for the use of a remote servers.ini file. Now everyone can easily use the newest servers.ini with no effort whatsoever.

Thanks,
110100100

By: 110100100

110100100 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:04:40 +0000

Thanks for the amazing review! Your guide to getting started is extremely well written and does an excellent job of explaining how to get up and running in the fewest steps. It could easily serve as the help file that I’ve been meaning to write (for about the last 5 years - I guess you beat me to the punch). I took a peek around the rest of your site and I must say that it is quite a useful resource. Very well done. You raised an interesting point about how big of a hassle it is to get the newest servers.ini. The capability used to exist to download a remote servers.ini, but it was crappy and no one hosted one anyway, as a result the feature was removed. I intent to reimplement the feature as soon as I can. It looks like a new release is on the way. Also, as mentioned in another post on this site, IRCKlipper is no longer around. This has greatly reduced the quality of the daily ini. I hope to improve on the ini spider in the days to come as well. Thank you all again for the terrific review and all of the great comments!

- 110100100

By: sharky

sharky — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:18:07 +0000

Funny thing: In Explorer, when I click on the link, it opens right up and I can save the “servers.ini” file to my hard drive. In Firefox, it just opens the file in the browser as plaintext (so I have to do a ’select all’ and copy/paste to make the file myself from the text in the window). I changed the instructions above - covering it both ways. Thanks for the heads up! —Sharky

By: greenlant00

greenlant00 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:56:12 +0000

This link is a automatically build servers.ini, which I believe runs daily.
http://avarice.cc/files/servers.ini/servers.ini

This is a new addition to the Avarice package. I am able to download this file with both Firefox and IE7. I just replace the servers.ini when I think of it. I have mentioned to the coder to have an option to auto-download the newest servers.ini upon startup.

By: sharky

sharky — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:17:54 +0000

Thanks for the comment! If I recall Bottler forked off in another direction, as well - Blotter. Yes, I joined their forum today and left a post commenting on how much I appreciated the program. And yeah, I admonished the readers to make SURE to update that servers.ini file, as it is about a year old with the install. As a joke, I tried it both ways and ran it with the old server file - if you want connections, you need to update it. Cheers! —Sharky

By: greenlant00

greenlant00 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:01:20 +0000

I have been in the Avarice users community since this was once 110100100’s Evil Bottler. This is roughly based on the “Bottler” source code, which was headed in the wrong direction. 110100100 (the coder) has done a very nice job making a simple, slim, fast and reliable IRC/xdcc client. There is also a support forum, but doesn’t get used much, the app runs smooth and responsive.

The biggest key. Make sure to update you servers.ini file. There should be a new file every day. This is located here:
http://avarice.cc/files/servers.ini/servers.ini