ii

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      1 .TH II 1 ii\-VERSION
      2 .SH NAME
      3 ii \- irc it or irc improved
      4 .SH DESCRIPTION
      5 .B ii
      6 is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client.
      7 It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and
      8 nick name directories.
      9 In every directory a FIFO file (in) and normal file (out)
     10 is placed. This will be for example ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/.
     11 The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out
     12 files includes the server messages. For every channel and every nick
     13 name there will be new in and out files.
     14 The basic idea of this is to be able to communicate with an IRC
     15 server with basic command line tools.
     16 For example if you will join a channel just do echo "/j #channel" > in
     17 and ii creates a new channel directory with in and out file.
     18 .SH SYNOPSIS
     19 .B ii
     20 .RB < \-s
     21 .IR servername >
     22 .RB [ \-p
     23 .IR port ]
     24 .RB [ \-k
     25 .IR "environment variable" ]
     26 .RB [ \-i
     27 .IR prefix ]
     28 .RB [ \-n
     29 .IR nickname ]
     30 .RB [ \-f
     31 .IR realname ]
     32 .RB < \-u
     33 .IR sockname >
     34 .SH OPTIONS
     35 .TP
     36 .BI \-s " servername"
     37 server to connect to, for example: irc.freenode.net
     38 .TP
     39 .BI \-u " sockname"
     40 connect to a UNIX domain socket instead of directly to a server.
     41 .TP
     42 .BI \-p " port"
     43 lets you override the default port (6667)
     44 .TP
     45 .BI \-k " environment variable"
     46 lets you specify an environment variable that contains your IRC password, e.g. IIPASS="foobar" ii -k IIPASS.
     47 This is done in order to prevent other users from eavesdropping the server password via the process list.
     48 .TP
     49 .BI \-i " prefix"
     50 lets you override the default irc path (~/irc)
     51 .TP
     52 .BI \-n " nickname"
     53 lets you override the default nick ($USER)
     54 .TP
     55 .BI \-f " realname"
     56 lets you specify your real name associated with your nick
     57 .SH DIRECTORIES
     58 .TP
     59 .B ~/irc
     60 In this directory the irc tree will be created. In this directory you
     61 will find a directory for your server (default: irc.freenode.net) in
     62 which the FIFO and the output file will be stored.
     63 If you join a channel a new directory with the name of the channel
     64 will be created in the ~/irc/$servername/ directory.
     65 .SH COMMANDS
     66 .TP
     67 .BI /a " [<message>]"
     68 mark yourself as away
     69 .TP
     70 .BI /j " #channel/nickname [<message>]"
     71 join a channel or open private conversation with user
     72 .TP
     73 .BI /l " [reason]"
     74 leave a channel or query
     75 .TP
     76 .BI /n " nick"
     77 change the nick name
     78 .TP
     79 .BI /q " [reason]"
     80 quit ii
     81 .TP
     82 .BI /t " topic"
     83 set the topic of a channel
     84 .SH RAW COMMANDS
     85 .LP
     86 Everything which is not a command will be posted into the channel or to the server.
     87 So if you need /who just write /WHO as described in RFC#1459 to the server in FIFO.
     88 .SH SSL PROTOCOL SUPPORT
     89 .LP
     90 For TLS/SSL protocol support you can connect to a local tunnel, for example with stunnel or socat.
     91 .SH CONTACT
     92 .LP
     93 Subscribe to the mailinglist and write to dev (at) suckless (dot) org for suggestions, fixes, etc.
     94 .SH AUTHORS
     95 ii engineers, see LICENSE file
     96 .SH SEE ALSO
     97 .BR echo (1),
     98 .BR tail (1)
     99 .SH BUGS
    100 Please report them!