NAME

       BarnOwl - tty‐based zephyr client

SYNOPSIS

       barnowl [-n] [-d] [-D] [-v] [-h] [-c CONFIGFILE] [-t TTY] [-s CONFIGDIR]

DESCRIPTION

       BarnOwl  is  a  fully  integrated  tty‐based instant messaging client.  Currently it supports AOL Instant
       Messenger, MIT Zephyr, Jabber, IRC, and Twitter.  It is curses‐based, allows for emacs‐style  editing  of
       outgoing  messages,  and  uses  Perl  as  an extension and configuration language.  BarnOwl will also run
       happily without a configuration file.

       Once BarnOwl is started, typing ‘h’ will display a help screen.  Typing ‘:’ enters command mode, allowing
       the user to type a BarnOwl command line.

OPTIONS

       The following command-line options are avilable when running BarnOwl:

       -n, --no-subs
              Do  not  subscribe  to  zephyr messages on startup.  By default, BarnOwl subscribes to the default
              subscriptions and to anything found in ~/.zephyr.subs.  When this option is used, no subscriptions
              are loaded.

       -c, --config-file=FILE
              Specify  an alternate config file for BarnOwl to use.  The config file is an arbitrary Perl script
              evaluated in the main package, and if it overrides the BarnOwl::startup method that  is  run  when
              BarnOwl  starts.  (Compare ~/.owl/startup, which contains BarnOwl commands that are run at startup
              after the config file is loaded.)

              By default, BarnOwl uses the first of ~/.owl/init.pl, ~/.barnowlconf, or ~/.owlconf that exists.

       -s, --config-dir=DIR
              Specify an alternate configuration directory.  By default, BarnOwl uses ~/.owl/.

       -t, --tty=TTY
              Specify the tty name to use for the zephyr location.

       -v, --version
              Print the version number of BarnOwl and exit.

       -d, --debug
              Enable debugging.  By default, debugging information is placed in /var/tmp/barnowl-debug.PID.

       -h, --help
              Print command‐line option help.

AUTHORS

       Written by Nelson Elhage and Alejandro Sedeno at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Based on Owl
       by James Kretchmar.

       Comments, questions, and bug reports may be mailed to bug-barnowl@mit.edu.

                                                   24 Jun 2011                                        BARNOWL(1)