Building this was.. . Involved, but I finally got it to link! Oh happy days! But then disaster struck!

Not enough parameters? And the worst thing is that I got this error EVERYWHERE… Googling this has become useless as everyone just says google it, so google made all that turn into a negative feedback loop! Or even useful advice like ‘upgrade your client, LOL’, but after going through an hour of `fun` getting this to run on Xenix I wasn’t going to try a new version of the source just yet.

Going through the source, looking for the USER command and where its used and found this:

send_to_server(“USER %s %s %s :%s”, username,
(send_umode && *send_umode) ? send_umode : hostname,
server_list[server].name, realname);

Which looks nice, but according to this as a reference, it doesn’t have enough parameters! So I figured I’d change it to something more like this!

send_to_server(“USER %s 8 * : %s”, username,realname);

And as you can see, it works!  Even the version string reports Xenix!

If anyone cares, you can download the binary here.