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Abstract
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ii is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client.
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It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and
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nick name directories.
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In every directory a FIFO file (in) and and normal file (out)
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is placed.
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The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out
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files include the server messages. For every channel and every nick
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name there will be new in and out files.
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The basic idea of this is to be able to communicate with an IRC
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server with standard command line tools.
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For example if you want to join a channel just do echo "/j #channel" > in
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and ii creates a new channel directory with in and out file.
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Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup. ii is installed into
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/usr/local by default.
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install ii (if
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necessary as root):
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$ make clean install
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Running ii
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Simply invoke the 'ii' command with required arguments
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To make ii a bit more comfortable use it in combination with the multitail
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program and for example with vim. Run vim in the server directory and use
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key mapping like:
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map w1 :.w >> \#ii/in<cr>
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map w2 :.w >> \#wmii/in<cr>
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to post to channels.
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If you use the next editor line for a new posting you can use ctrl-p for nick
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completion if you wrote the nick in the past.
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Thanks to Matthias Kopfermann for this hint.
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You can find an example of how this nested environment could look like on:
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http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/440-Using-the-ii-irc-client.html
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Configuration
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No configuration is needed.
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Changelog
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Since I missed the chance to add a proper changelog right from the beginning,
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please have a look at the commit messages on http://www.suckless.org/hg.rc/ii
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they are fairly descriptive on releases prior to 1.2.
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Contact
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If you want to contact the developers just write a mail to
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ii (at) modprobe (dot) de
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-- Nico Golde, Anselm R. Garbe
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