tubes is a small program that provides an interface to irc bots that follows the UNIX philosophy. Messages to and from the server are exposed in FIFO buffers in /tmp named for the server and appended with either .in or .out: the server writes to in and the bot writes to out. Installing ========== tubes' defaults are configured within tubes.c by changing the values of the server and port variables at compile time. OpenSSL is a dependency of tubes; download the devel package from your distro. To install, cd into the cloned directory and `sudo make install`. Some tweaking of the Makefile may be necessary, e.g. the location of local manpages. Custom compiler flags can be appended to the defaults, e.g. `CFLAGS=-fPIC`.