NAME

       Irssi - a modular IRC client for UNIX

SYNOPSIS

       irssi [-dv!?] [-c server] [-p port] [-n nickname] [-w password] [-h hostname]

DESCRIPTION

       Irssi  is  a  modular Internet Relay Chat client. It is highly extensible and very secure.
       Being a fullscreen, termcap based client with many features, Irssi  is  easily  extensible
       through scripts and modules.

OPTIONS

       --config=FILE
              use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config.

       --home=PATH
              PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi.  Default is ~/.irssi

       -c, --connect=SERVER
              connects to SERVER

       -w, --password=PASSWORD
              use PASSWORD for authentication.

       -p, --port=PORT
              automatically connect to PORT on server.

       -!, --noconnect
              disables autoconnecting.

       -n, --nick=NICKNAME
              specify NICKNAME as your nick.

       -h, --hostname=HOSTNAME
              use HOSTNAME for your irc session.

       -d, --dummy
              use dummy terminal mode.

       -v, --version
              display the version of Irssi.

       -?, --help
              show a help message.

       --usage
              display brief usage message.

SEE ALSO

       Irssi  has  been  supplied with a huge amount of documentation. Check /help or look at the
       files contained by /usr/share/doc/irssi*

FILES

       /etc/irssi.conf
              Global configuration file

       ~/.irssi/config
              Personal configuration file

       ~/.irssi/config.autosave
              Automatic save of the personal config file when it was changed externally

       ~/.irssi/default.theme
              Default irssi theme

       ~/.irssi/away.log
              Logged messages in away status

       /usr/share/irssi/help/
              Directory including many help files

       /usr/share/irssi/scripts/
              Global scripts directory

       /usr/share/irssi/themes/
              Global themes directory

       ~/.irssi/scripts/
              Default scripts directory

       ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/
              Directory containing links to  scripts  that  should  be  loaded  automatically  on
              startup

       ~/.irssi/startup
              File containing a list of commands to execute on startup

AUTHORS/CREDITS

       Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen <cras@irssi.org>

       This  manpage  was  written  by  Istvan  Sebestyen <stevee@alphanet.ch> and Stefan Tomanek
       <stefan@pico.ruhr.de>