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A Text Game for IRC on a host server of irc.gamesurge.net would be an interest of mine to make one. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of C++ examples for connecting to servers like gamesurge and then responding to the messages and constant pings. Truth is that I am totally lost when it comes to network programming and especially connecting to IRC. The last time I tried, the client kept idling out because it didnt respond correctly. So please could someone give me examples or explain to me the process behind connecting and staying connected to IRC.