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ii(1) General Commands Manual ii(1) NAME
ii - irc it or irc improved DESCRIPTION
ii is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client. It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directo- ries. In every directory a FIFO file (in) and and normal file (out) is placed. This will be for example ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/. The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out files includes the server messages. For every channel and every nick name there will be new in and out files. The basic idea of this is to be able to communicate with an IRC server with basic command line tools. For example if you will join a channel just do echo "/j #channel" > in and ii creates a new channel directory with in and out file. SYNOPSIS
ii [-s servername] [-p port] [-k password] [-i prefix] [-n nickname] [-f realname] OPTIONS
-s servername lets you override the default servername (irc.freenode.net) -p port lets you override the default port (6667) -k password lets you use a password to authenticate your nick on the server (be aware of the problem that this is visible in the process list, if you don't want this use a query to submit your password) -i prefix lets you override the default irc path (~/irc) -n nickname lets you override the default nick ($USER) -f realname lets you specify your real name associated with your nick DIRECTORIES
~/irc In this directory the irc tree will be created. In this directory you will find a directory for your server (default: irc.freen- ode.net) in which the FIFO and the output file will be stored. If you join a channel a new directory with the name of the channel will be created in the ~/irc/$servername/ directory. COMMANDS
/a [<message>] mark yourself as away /j #channel/nickname [<message>] join a channel or open private conversation with user /l #channel/nickname leave a channel or query /n nick change the nick name /t topic set the topic of a channel Everything which is not a command will simply be posted into the channel or to the server. So if you need /who just write /WHO as described in the RFC to the server in FIFO. out file usage Write wrappers, pagers or use your tools of choice to display the out file contents (loco, multitail, etc.). CONTACT
Write to ii (at) modprobe (dot) de for suggestions, fixes, 7|-|>< ;) etc. AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 by Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam (at) gmail (dot) com> and Copyright (C) 2005-2008 by Nico Golde <nico (at) ngolde (dot) de> SEE ALSO
echo(1), tail(1), ii(1)
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picoirc(n) Simple embeddable IRC interface picoirc(n) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NAME
picoirc - Small and simple embeddable IRC client. SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl package require picoirc ?0.5? ::picoirc::connect callback nick url ::picoirc::post context channel message ::picoirc::splituri uri ::picoirc::send context line _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This package provides a general purpose minimal IRC client suitable for embedding in other applications. All communication with the parent application is done via an application provided callback procedure. Each connection has its own state so you can hook up multiple servers in a single application instance. To initiate an IRC connection you must call picoirc::connect with a callback procedure, a nick-name to use on IRC and the IRC URL that describes the connection. This will return a variable name that is the irc connection context. See CALLBACK for details. This package is a fairly simple IRC client. If you need something with more capability investigate the irc package. COMMANDS
::picoirc::connect callback nick url Create a new irc connection to the server specified by url and login using the nick as the username. The callback must be as speci- fied in CALLBACK. Returns a package-specific variable that is used when calling other commands in this package. ::picoirc::post context channel message This should be called to process user input and send it to the server. A number of commands are recognised when prefixed with a for- ward-slash (/). Such commands are converted to IRC command sequences and then sent. ::picoirc::splituri uri Splits an IRC scheme uniform resource indicator into its component parts. Returns a list of server, port and channel. The default port is 6667 and there is no default channel. ::picoirc::send context line This command is where all raw output to the server is handled. The default action is to write the line to the irc socket. However, before this happens the callback is called with "debug write". This permits the application author to inspect the raw IRC data and if desired to return a break error code to halt further processing. In this way the application can override the default send via the callback procedure. CALLBACK
The callback must look like: proc Callback {context state args} { } where context is the irc context variable name (in case you need to pass it back to a picoirc procedure). state is one of a number of states as described below. init called just before the socket is created connect called once we have connected, before we join any channels close called when the socket gets closed, before the context is deleted. If an error occurs before we get connected the only argument will be the socket error message. userlist channel nicklist called to notify the application of an updated userlist. This is generated when the output of the NAMES irc command is seen. The package collects the entire output which can span a number of output lines from the server and calls this callback when they have all been received. chat target nick message type called when a message arrives. target is the identity that the message was targetted for. This can be the logged in nick or a chan- nel name. nick is the name of the sender of the message. message is the message text. type is set to "ACTION" if the message was sent as a CTCP ACTION system channel message called when a system message is received topic channel topic called when the channel topic string is seen. topic is the text of the channel topic. traffic action channel nick ?newnick? called when users join, leave or change names. action is either entered, left or nickchange and nick is the user doing the action. newnick is the new name if action is nickchange. NOTE: channel is often empty for these messages as nick activities are global for the irc server. You will have to manage the nick for all connected channels yourself. version This is called to request a version string to use to override the internal version. If implemented, you should return as colon delimited string as Appname:Appversion:LibraryVersion For example, the default is PicoIRC:[package provide picoirc]:Tcl [info patchlevel] debug type raw called when data is either being read or written to the network socket. type is set to read when reading data and write if the data is to be written. raw is the unprocessed IRC protocol data. In both cases the application can return a break error code to interrupt further processing of the raw data. If this is a read oper- ation then the package will not handle this line. If the operation is write then the package will not send the data. This callback is intended for debugging protocol issues but could be used to redirect all input and output if desired. SEE ALSO
rfc 1459 KEYWORDS
chat, irc CATEGORY
Networking irc 0.5 picoirc(n)