Connect

Do you mean:

• The connect command, /connect <server> <port> [initiating-server], which sends an IRC server-to-server connection request? It does not connect your client to IRC. Accepted syntax, operator permissions, routing, and success depend on the server.
• The connect function, $connect(...), whose former raw-connection behavior is removed? The name remains registered as a compatibility placeholder that always returns an empty string; it opens no connection and ignores its arguments.

To connect EPIC itself to an IRC server, use the server command. For retrying a client connection, see reconnect and server states.

The command and function are separate interfaces despite sharing a name. Neither the server-link request nor the placeholder function returns a usable client connection identifier.

Source references

• source/commands.c: connect uses the generic protocol-command sender; server has a separate handler.
• source/functions.c: registered connect() placeholder and disabled former implementation.
• source/server.c: client IRC connection handling.