IRC Client Alternatives?

[minglong]

I've been sending files to my friend using the mIRC client program for a while now but recently, his university managed to make a security setting so that you can't run the program mIRC. However, other clients do work (we've tried bitchx and hydrairc).

Our problem is that he needs the /dccserver command in order to get files from me (because my end, also university, has a firewall which means I need to use sysreset's firewall workaround) and the two clients I mentioned don't support that command. Client's like Invision and sysreset don't work for him because they are built on top of mIRC.

Also, he can only use clients which don't need to be installed (so basically, it has to work when copy and pasted to different places, like sysreset). The reason is because he has to use the computer labs (which obviously prevent program installation) and they only provide him a tiny 56k line in his room at a cost of 2p a minute. Good old University of Edinburgh :p

Oh yes, the platform is Windows.

[Shii]

/dccserver is an idiotic mIRC-only command.

[lavalyn]

/dccserver is an idiotic mIRC-only command.
There's a plugin in XChat that will do it, but it's considered pre-alpha code.

[minglong]

Thanks a lot for the answers. I didn't know that /dccserver was mIRC only. Perhaps one of you knows an alternative method of us transferring files like perhaps some very simple program which can directly send files to another computer using the same program?

FTP isn't an option unfortunately.

[flammie]

FTP isn't an option unfortunately.

How about sftp?

[Shii]

Thanks a lot for the answers. I didn't know that /dccserver was mIRC only. Perhaps one of you knows an alternative method of us transferring files like perhaps some very simple program which can directly send files to another computer using the same program?scp (http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html)?

[lavalyn]

netcat? :)

[minglong]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions, I'll have a look into those clients.

[Megane]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions, I'll have a look into those clients.

Um, SFTP, SCP and netcat are not clients, it looks like flammie, ashibaka and lavalyn are just being geeky...

SFTP and SCP are file transfer protocols, which are generally held in high regard, especially in comparison to standard FTP, with its poor security history. To use them you'll need a compatible client (http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/) on your machine, and an SSH server (http://www.cygwin.com/) (or you could t (http://www.debian.org/)r (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-us/)y (http://www.gentoo.org/) l (http://www.knoppix.org/)i (http://www.gnoppix.org/)n (http://www.suse.de/en/)u (http://fedora.redhat.com/)x (http://www.slackware.com/)) on the remote machine that you are trying to transfer files to/from. While setting up a client is really easy, it's a little more "hardcore" to move from IRC and DCC to a more secure protocol, and the server may not be such a breeze. Have a go if you are interested.

Oh, and as for netcat (http://netcat.sourceforge.net/)... Well, that's another way of doing it perhaps, if you're a masochist...

[Raven_Zero]

I'm not sure if this might help but when i was at school i used to use a tcp/udp tunnel program. I setup a server on my home pc then ran the tunneler program on the school pc.(ran it off a floppy) What it does is send all traffic over a port you pick (i used 80) to my home pc then my home pc would routed th stuff to the right port. Then send it back to me over port 80. It worked good for going to sites and other things they dint want you to goto and i used to also use it for irc as they did not allow irc chat on there network.