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NAME

       ircII - interface to the Internet Relay Chat system

SYNOPSIS

       irc  [-c  chan]  [-p portno] [-P portno] [-b] [-f] [-F] [-s] [-S] [-t] [-T] [-d] [nickname [server list]]
       [-a] [-v] [-q] [-h hostname ] [-icb] [-irc]

DESCRIPTION

       The ircII program is a full screen, termcap based interface to Internet Relay Chat.  It gives full access
       to all of the normal IRC functions, plus a variety of additional options.

OPTIONS

       -c chan
              Automatically join channel chan.

       -p portno
              Set the IRC port number to portno (default: 6667, the standard IRC port).  Only supply this if you
              connect to a server which uses a port other than 6667.

       -P portno
              Set the ICB port number to portno (default: 7326, the standard ICB port).

       -b     Load the .ircrc file before connection to a server, not afterwards.

       -f     Use flow control (^S and ^Q) to stop/start the display.  Normally these are both  bound  to  other
              functions within irc.  This switch is ignored if the  -d switch is used.

       -F     Don't  use  flow control (^S and ^Q) to stop start the display.  This switch is ignored if the  -d
              switch is used.

       -s     Don't start up the ircio process to connect to the IRC server (default).

       -S     Start up the ircio process to connect to the IRC server.

       -t     Don't use the termcap ti and te sequences when starting and exiting (default).

       -T     Do use the termcap ti and te sequences when starting and exiting if they exist.

       -d     Start in "dumb" mode.  All input is taken directly from  stdin  and  all  output  goes  to  stdout
              without using any of the termcap(5) screen control codes.

       nickname
              Set the nickname (overrides the environment variable IRCNICK; default: the username).

       server Set  the  list of servers with which irc will try to connect upon startup.  This list is also used
              by the program's /server command.  The format for lines in the list is:

              hostname [:portno[:password[:nick]]] for IRC connections.  For ICB connections, the format is:

              ICB/hostname [:portno[::nick[:group[:mode]]]] with group being the initial group  and  mode  being
              the initial group mode.  See /HELP ICB for more information about ICB.

              If  the hostname is in the format :servergroup:host.com then servergroup is taken to be the Server
              Group for this server entry.

       -a     This adds the normal irc server list to the command line list of irc servers.

       -v     Print the version and release date of ircII and exit.

       -q     Start up irc quickly -- don't load the IRCRC file.

       -h hostname
              This option instructs ircII to use the given hostname as the local address.  Useful only on multi-
              homed hosts.

       -icb   Use ICB connections by default.

       -irc   Use IRC connections by default.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

   The Screen:
       The  screen is split into two parts, separated by an inverse-video status line (if supported).  The upper
       (larger) part of the screen displays responses from the IRC server.  The lower  part  of  the  screen  (a
       single line) accepts keyboard input.

       Some  terminals  do  not  support certain features required by ircII, in which case you receive a message
       stating this.  If this occurs, try changing the terminal type or run ircII with the -d option.

   Irc Commands:
       Any line beginning with the slash character '/' is regarded as an ircII command  (the  command  character
       may  be  changed;  type '/help set cmdchar').  Any line not beginning with this character is treated as a
       message to be sent to the current channel.  To produce a listing of commands, type '/help ?'.  To receive
       information about the commands type '/help <command> '.

   The .ircrc File:
       When  ircII is executed, it checks the user's home directory for a .ircrc file, executing the commands in
       the file.  Commands in this file do not need  to  have  a  leading  slash  character  '/'.   This  allows
       predefinition of aliases and other features.

EXAMPLES

       irc -c #users -p 5555
              Connect IRC to port number 5555 of the default host and enter on channel #users.

       irc Mermaid
              Use the nickname "Mermaid".

       irc Mermaid server1:5000 server2::passwd server3
              Use the nickname "Mermaid" and the modified server list.

       irc piglet3 :ln:irc1.lamenet.org :ln:irc1.lamenet.org
              Use   the   nickname   "piglet3",   initially   connecting   to   irc.au.lamenet.org,   with  also
              irc.us.lamenet.org added to the server list, both having a server group name "ln".

       irc oink ICB/www.icb.net
              Use the nick "oink" making an ICB connection to www.icb.net.

       irc -d Use dumb mode.

       irc -f Allow use of ^S/^Q to stop/start screen display.

       irc -e elisa
              Interface IRC with a program called elisa.

       setenv IRCNICK Mermaid
       setenv IRCNAME "The one and only :)"

       irc    Set the username (if not specified elsewhere) to "Mermaid".  The user's name (when provided inside
              parentheses in response to a WHOIS command) is set to "The one and only :)".

FILES

       /usr/bin/ircII        the executable program

       ~/.ircrc              default initialization file

       ~/.irc/               directory  you  can  put  your own ircII scripts into, that can then be loaded with
                             /load

       /etc/irc/             directory containing message-of-the-day,  master  initialization,  help  files  and
                             ircII scripts /etc/irc/script/local is the master initialization file for the site,
                             loaded before .ircrc is.  This is a Debian GNU/Linux conffile.

       /usr/share/ircII/     shared repository for help, translation tables and distributed scripts.

THE HELP FILES

       All of the ircII commands are fully described in the help files package.  The best way to start  here  is
       with the /HELP ?  command as this prints a listing of all available help files.

SIGNALS

       ircII handles the following signals

       SIGUSR1
              Closes all DCC connections and EXEC'ed processes.

       SIGUSR2
              Drops ircII back to the command line.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       It can be helpful to predefine certain variables in in the .cshrc, .profile, or .login file:

       IRCNICK
              The user's IRC nickname.

       IRCNAME
              The user's IRC realname (otherwise retreived from /etc/passwd)

       IRCSERVER
              The default IRC server(s) (see server option for details)

       IRCSERVERSFILE
              The  file  containing  the  default list of server(s), usually PREFIX/lib/irc/ircII.servers.  This
              file should contain one server entry per line.

       HOME   Overrides the default home path in /etc/passwd.

       TERM   The type of terminal in use.

FILES

       ircII uses the following files under the library directory, usually PREFIX/share/irc.

       ircII.servers
              The initial list of servers if none are provided on the command line.

       ircII.motd
              Message of the day.  This file is displayed only once each time it is changed.

SEE ALSO

       ircd(8)

BUGS

       Please notify the current developer of the software of any bugs in current versions.

AUTHORS

       Program written by Michael  Sandrof  (ms5n+@andrew.cmu.edu).   Now  being  maintained  by  Matthew  Green
       (mrg@eterna.com.au).   Debian   specific   extensions   by   the   Debian   Maintainer   Bernd  Eckenfels
       (ecki@debian.org).  Names of contributors and contact address can be retrieved with  the  /info  command.
       This  manual  page  written  by  Darren  Reed  (avalon@coombs.anu.EDU.AU),  revised  by  R. P. C. Rodgers
       (rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu), by the lynX, and by Matthew Green (mrg@eterna.com.au).

                                                 31 October 2002                                        IRCII(1)