Re: IRC

["Michael J. McGillick" <mike universe ne mediaone net>]

Mike:

You weren't rude at all.  I apologize if I made you think that. :)

I just wanted to make sure that I didn't get caught in the normal RTFM
trap :)

Thanks for the additional info.

- Mike

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mike Cathey wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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