jlc Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 /join #coolness You join the channel #coolness. /who #coolness Gives some info on users in the channel. @ = channel op, while * means IRC op. hello everyone Everyone on #coolness sees <yournick> hello everyone. (You need not type in your own nick.) /me is a pink bunny Everyone in #coolness sees * yournick is a pink bunny /leave #coolness You leave the channel. /whois Tomm You get some info about Tomm or whatever nickname you entered. /whois yournick This is some info others see about you. /nick newnick Changes your nick to "newnick" /msg Tomm hi there. Only Tomm sees your message (you don't need to be on the same channel for this to work). /ping #coolness Gives information on the delay (round-trip) between you and everybody on #coolness. /ping Tomm Gives information on the delay (round-trip) between you and just Tomm. /dcc chat MaryN This sends MaryN a request for a dcc chat session. MaryN types /dcc chat yournick to complete the connection. DCC chat is faster (lag free) and more secure than /msg. /msg =MaryN Hi there! Once a DCC connection has been established, use the /msg =nick message format to exchange messages (note the = sign). DCC does not go through servers, so it are unaffected by server lag, net splits, etc. /help This works in many clients. Try it! /quit good night! You quit IRC completely, with the parting comment so that others see "*** Signoff: yournick (good night!)". This is a basic list, but will help in the begining and always try /help to see what's available in your client. 8) http://irchelp.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 This also might be a good place to outline some of the more popular IRC Client software. X-Chat is one of the most popular among #musb users. You can see it up in a lot of screenshots in the Show off your Desktop thread. KSIRC is another good one, not quite as good as X-Chat for a gui interface. This one comes standard with KDE BitchX is a fairly decent terminal-based IRC client. I've used it, and I like it; but it's not my favorite. irssi is another terminal-based IRC client. This is the one that I use and the one that you'll see in most of my Fluxbox screenshots. Of course, with terminal-based irc clients, you need some additional commands. Here's a few of my favorites for irssi: /server add -auto freenode irc.freenode.net:6667 - Will add and automatically connect to irc.freenode.net on startup. Of course, if you have this one, you might as well have: /channel add -auto #musb freenode - This will automatically join #musb (our channel) on startup. If you use irssi, and enter these commands, don't forget to issue: /save to save your settings for each time irssi is opened. More commands for irssi can be found here: http://real.irssi.org/?page=docs&doc=startup-HOWTO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Other useful commands for irssi: /n - similar to /whois #musb Gives you a listing of people currently signed in to the channel Alt + 1-0 or Alt + q-o will switch between active windows. Page Up/Page Down will let you scroll up/down /away awaymessage will put you into away status. This message will not be broadcast to the channel, but will show up if anyone tries to /msg you /away with no away message will set you back to active status. The /away command will also work for any client you use. The command to bring you back active is either /away again or /back depending on your client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 (edited) register my nick, might as well right? once you are logged into freenode and have your desired nickname just issue the following commands: /msg nickserv register <your-password> Hide your e-mail and set it. /msg nickserv set hide email on /msg nickserv set email <your-email-address> Now people can't spoof your nick! :P Add another name and link it to primary, first you have to change from primary to secondary: /nick cybrjackle_ /msg nickserv link <primary-nick> <your-password> For more info: Nickname Setup Edited March 28, 2004 by cybrjackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 (edited) How can I tell when someone might be spoofing a user's identity? If your client supports CAPAB IDENTIFY-MSG, you can configure it to let you know when someone speaking on channel or via /msg is not identified to services. If you want other people using this feature to know that you're you, have your client /msg nickserv identify yourpasswordhere automatically when you connect to the network. Scripts to take advantage of CAPAB IDENTIFY-MSG are currently available for irssi and mIRC, and a patch is available for sirc and ksirc. irssi script Q: How do I run scripts? A: Put them into ~/.irssi/scripts/ and in irssi do /script load script.pl . There is a default alias for /script load to /run in newer versions of irssi. Q: How do I rerun scripts? A: Just do /script load script.pl . Q: How do I unload scripts? A: Just do /script unload script.pl . Q: How do I run scripts automatically at startup? A: Put them into ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/ directory. Or better would be if you placed them in ~/.irssi/scripts/ and created symlinks to autorun directory (eg. cd ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/ ; ln -s ../script.pl .) Q: Is there an easy way of managing script? A: Try scriptassist.pl, it can update and manage your scripts as well as install new ones and search the database. Q: I discovered a real fabulous/ugly script. How can I spread the word? A: You can rate scripts at http://ratings.irssi.de. Q: Is there a mailing list I can bother with questions about script use and development? A: Sure there is, send a mail to irssi-scripts-subscribe@scripts.irssi.org to subscribe to it. All irssi Scripts Edited March 28, 2004 by cybrjackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted November 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Just adding some good info for irssi http://selcouth.com/irssi.php http://linuxreviews.org/man/irssi/ http://f0rked.com/articles/irssi Long story short, can't use irc very effectivly at work so ssh to my box at home and using irssi proves to be the good use :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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