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+Slack-IRC Gateway
+=================
+
+Originally from Daniel Beer's slirc-20180515.pl, then
+slirc-20190508.pl 
+https://dlbeer.co.nz/articles/slirc/index.html
+
+Minor patch to use "conversations.coin" rather than "channels.join" as
+per the recent API change. But the source is not fixed up for other
+IRC commands. Joining and chatting works which is good enough for me.
+
+