debian man page for owl

owl(1)							      General Commands Manual							    owl(1)

NAME
       owl - tty based zephyr client

SYNOPSIS
       owl [ -n ] [ -d ] [ -D ] [ -v ] [ -h ] [ -c configfile ] [ -t tty ]

DESCRIPTION
       Owl  is	a fully integrated tty based instant messaging client.	Currently it supports AOL Instant Messenger and MIT Zephyr.  It is curses-
       based, allows for emacs style editing of outgoing messages and uses a perl configuration language for setting options and customizing  mes-
       sage formatting.  Owl will also run happily without a configuration file.

       Once Owl is started, typing 'h' will display a help screen.  Typing ':' enters command mode, allowing the user to type an owl command line.

USE
       The following command line options are avilable when running owl:

       -n

	      Do  not  subscribe  to  zephyr messages on startup.  By default Owl subscribes to the default subscriptions and to anything found in
	      ~/.zephyr.subs.  When this option is used no subscriptions are loaded.

       -c configfile

	      Specifiy an alternate config file for Owl to use.  The default configuration file is ~/.owlconf

       -t tty

	      Specifiy the tty name to use for the zephyr location.

       -v

	      Print the version number of owl and exit.

       -d

	      Enable debugging.  By default debugging information is placed in /var/tmp/owldebug.

       -D

	      Enable debugging, but first delete any existing debugging file.

       -h

	      Print command line option help.

AUTHOR
       Written by James Kretchmar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Comments, questions, and  bug	reports  may  be  mailed  to  bug-
       owl@ktools.org.

								    10 Apr 2004 							    owl(1)