CENTERIM(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CENTERIM(1)

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/
My 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)