Irssi(1)						      General Commands Manual							  Irssi(1)

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>

Irssi IRC client						  September 2002							  Irssi(1)