NAME

       centerim  - a text mode based IM client for Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris, MacOS X and possibly, other Unices.
       ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM  TOC,  IRC,  MSN,  Gadu-Gadu  and  Jabber  protocols  are  now  supported.  Internal
       LiveJournal client and RSS reader are also provided.

SYNOPSIS

       centerim [ option ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the centerim command.

       centerim  is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface.  Currently ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN,
       Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols are supported. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs,
       SMSes  and,  contacts, mass message send, search for users (including extended "whitepages search"), view
       users' details, maintain your contact list directly from the program (including non-icq  contacts),  view
       the  messages  history,  register  a  new  UIN  and  update  your details, be informed on receiving email
       messages, automatically set away after the defined period of inactivity (on any console), and  have  your
       own  ignore,  visible  and  invisible  lists. It can also associate events with sounds, add events to the
       outgoing queue from command line, define external event processing actions (like  events  auto-forwarding
       or elizatalk), has support for Hebrew and Arabic languages and allows to arrange contacts into groups.

OPTIONS

       -a, --ascii
              use ascii characters to draw lines and boxes

       -h, --help
              display command line usage

       -v, --version
              show the program version info

       -b, --basedir <directory>
              specify  another  base  directory;  useful  for  having  several IM identities under the same UNIX
              account

       -B, --bind <hostname/ip>
              tells centerim to use the specified IP address for outgoing connections

       -B, --no-xtitles
              disable title changing in xterm or screen

       -o, --offline
              start with all protocols set offline

       The following commands are used to put events to the outgoing queue from the command line. If centerim is
       already running they're to be sent immediately, otherwise they will be sent as soon as you go on-line.

       -s, --send <event type>
              This  parameter  specifies  the  type  of event you want to send.  Currently only "msg", "url" and
              "sms" are supported.

       -p, --proto <protocol type>
              This one specifies to which IM network the destination contact belongs.  Can  be  "icq",  "yahoo",
              "aim", "irc", "jab", "msn", "gg" or "lj".

       -t, --to <nickname or UIN>
              With  this  one  you  specify nickname or UIN of the destination contact. For icq it's possible to
              specify 0 to send events to yourself. Only SMSes are known to be possible to be  sent  to  oneself
              though.

       -n, --number <phone number>
              Using this parameter you can send SMSes to any mobile numbers through the ICQ network.

       The  message text is read from the standard input, so use pipes in shell to pass it. For example, you can
       say "hi" to me through the ICQ network with the following command:

           $ echo "hi" | centerim -s msg -p icq -t 17502151

       In case you want to send an URL, the URL  itself  and  its  description  are  separated  with  a  newline
       character the following way:

           $ echo -e "http://thekonst.net/\nMy modest homepage."     | centerim -s url -p icq -t 17502151

       Please note, that all three parameters are required in order to queue an event.

       Finally, a small example of sending SMSes:

           $ echo "sms test" | centerim -s sms -n 1234567890

       It's  also  possible  to change your current status on a particular IM network with the following command
       line option.

       -S, --status <status letter>
              The argument parameter is a letter which indicates which status  is  to  be  set:  o  (Online),  _
              (Offline), a (Away), d (Don't disturb), n (N/A), c (Occupied), f (Free for chat), i (Invisible)

       -p or --proto <protocol name>
              Exactly the same like it was described for the previous command.

       Examples:

           $ centerim -S _ -p icq

       This will set the icq status to offline. In other words, it'll be disconnected immediately.

           $ centerim -S a -p yahoo

       And this command will switch your yahoo status to away.

VERSION

       centerim 4.22.1

BUG REPORT

       Report any bugs at our Bugzilla site at http://bugzilla.centerim.org/

AUTHOR

       This  page  and  centerim  was  originally  written by Konstantin Klyagin.  Currently, several people are
       maintaining this software project.

WEB

       http://www.centerim.org/

                                                  April 2, 2007                                      CENTERIM(1)