Re: IRC

[Mike Cathey <pointer vol com>]

Mike,
I apologize.  I wasn't trying to come across as rude.  This is one of
those rare instances where none of the following provide any useful
information:

`apropos irc`
`whatis irc`
`man irc`
`info irc` (*shudder* an FSF standard)
However, there is one last hope:

`irc --help`

This turns up the pertinent information.  Again, I apologize if I came
across as a flamer.  I was merely trying to be as terse as possible,
while still transferring the necessary information.  An interesting side
note is that the '--help' parameter seems to be a gnu specific feature. 
I don't think any of my Sun/BSD(I) boxes utilize this.  Failing the
'--help' I would do a search on freshmeat(.net) and see if I could
locate the necessary info on the software's homepage.  Have a happy New
Year!

Sincerely,

Mike Cathey
System Administrator
Voyager Online, LLC

"Michael J. McGillick" wrote:
> 
> Mike:
> 
> I did try man irc (for fear of large flames :) ) first.  No luck.  I got
> the answer from another poster on the list.  Thanks.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mike Cathey wrote:
> 
> > Mike,
> > 'man irc' ?
> >
> > try `/server irc.linpeople.org`
> > and then `/join #linpeople`
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > "Michael J. McGillick" wrote:
> > >
> > > Afternoon folks:
> > >
> > > when using irc from a command line in Linux, how do I tell it to connect
> > > to a specific IRC server?  I've tried irc <server> name and it always sems
> > > to come up to some default server.  Is there an rc file somewhere that
> > > needs to be modified, or is there an argument I can give to irc to tell it
> > > to connect to a different server than the default?
> > >
> > > - Mike