miau / Features

miau offers several features

Permanent connection to IRC-server
Can set user away when client quits and can also use user's quit-message as away-message.
Ability to try to get primary nick
Logging (recent log can be replayed automatically at reconnect like you already had been on the channel)
Message forwarding
DCC-bouncing
Auto-mode (without mode-flood)
Flood protection
On-connect sent messages (to keep nickservs etc. happy)
Ability to survive even if some pings to server are lost
V-host support
Preliminary IPv6-support (untested)
Cats in ASCII
Support for multiple clients (one at home, one at office)
Permission-chains
Portable, written in C
Compiles (at least) on GNU/Linux (i386/StrongARM/Alpha), HP-UX (HP 9000/C3000), SunOS (sun4m/sun4u/sun4c), Digital UNIX (Alpha) and MacOSX (PPC). Not tested on others.
Small (my miau is about 50 kB KiB on GNU/Linux on i386)
Most features can be left uncompiled
Released under GPL
Also see bugs. ;-)

If there's a feature you'd like to see in miau, use SourceForge's feature request -form or drop me e-mail. Be sure to check old requests first.