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* Also improve the order of options and consistency with the usage in ii.c. * Remove some redundant sections. Adapted from a patch by Petr Vaněk <arkamar@atlas.cz>, thanks!
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98 lines
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.TH II 1 ii\-VERSION
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.SH NAME
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ii \- irc it or irc improved
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B ii
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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 normal file (out)
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is placed. This will be for example ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/.
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The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out
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files includes 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 basic command line tools.
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For example if you will 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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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B ii
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.RB < \-s
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.IR host >
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.RB [ \-p
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.IR port ]
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.RB < \-u
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.IR sockname >
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.RB [ \-i
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.IR ircdir ]
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.RB [ \-n
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.IR nickname ]
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.RB [ \-f
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.IR realname ]
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.RB [ \-k
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.IR "environment variable" ]
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.BI \-s " servername"
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server/host to connect to, for example: irc.freenode.net
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.TP
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.BI \-p " port"
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lets you override the default port (6667)
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.TP
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.BI \-u " sockname"
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connect to a UNIX domain socket instead of directly to a server.
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.TP
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.BI \-i " ircdir"
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lets you override the default irc path (~/irc)
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.TP
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.BI \-n " nickname"
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lets you override the default nick ($USER)
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.TP
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.BI \-f " realname"
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lets you specify your real name associated with your nick
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.TP
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.BI \-k " environment variable"
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lets you specify an environment variable that contains your IRC password, e.g. IIPASS="foobar" ii -k IIPASS.
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This is done in order to prevent other users from eavesdropping the server
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password via the process list.
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.SH DIRECTORIES
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.TP
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.B ~/irc
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In this directory the irc tree will be created. In this directory you
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will find a directory for your server (default: irc.freenode.net) in
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which the FIFO and the output file will be stored.
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If you join a channel a new directory with the name of the channel
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will be created in the ~/irc/$servername/ directory.
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.SH COMMANDS
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.TP
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.BI /a " [<message>]"
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mark yourself as away
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.TP
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.BI /j " #channel/nickname [<message>]"
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join a channel or open private conversation with user
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.TP
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.BI /l " [reason]"
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leave a channel or query
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.TP
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.BI /n " nick"
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change the nick name
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.TP
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.BI /q " [reason]"
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quit ii
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.TP
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.BI /t " topic"
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set the topic of a channel
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.SH RAW COMMANDS
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.LP
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Everything which is not a command will be posted into the channel or to the server.
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So if you need /who just write /WHO as described in RFC#1459 to the server in FIFO.
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.SH SSL/TLS PROTOCOL SUPPORT
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.LP
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For SSL/TLS protocol support you can connect to a local tunnel, for example
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with stunnel or socat.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR echo (1),
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.BR tail (1)
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