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[1d1244a2]1.TH owl 1 "10 Apr 2004"
[7d4fbcd]2.SH NAME
3owl \- tty based zephyr client
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B owl
6[ \-n
7]
[1d1244a2]8[ \-d
[7d4fbcd]9]
[1d1244a2]10[ \-D
[7d4fbcd]11]
12[ \-v
13]
[1d1244a2]14[ \-h
[5f82eb3]15]
[1d1244a2]16[ \-c
17.I configfile
[5f82eb3]18]
[1d1244a2]19[ \-t
20.I tty
[5f82eb3]21]
[7d4fbcd]22
23.br
24.SH DESCRIPTION
25.B Owl
[5f82eb3]26is a fully integrated tty based instant messaging client.  Currently
27it supports AOL Instant Messenger and MIT Zephyr.  It is curses-based,
28allows for emacs style editing of outgoing messages and uses a perl
29configuration language for setting options and customizing message
30formatting.  Owl will also run happily without a configuration file.
[7d4fbcd]31
[5f82eb3]32Once Owl is started, typing 'h' will display a help screen.  Typing
[1d1244a2]33\':\' enters command mode, allowing the user to type an owl command
[5f82eb3]34line.
[7d4fbcd]35
36.PP
37.SH USE
38The following command line options are avilable when running owl:
39
40.B \-n
41.IP
[5f82eb3]42Do not subscribe to zephyr messages on startup.  By default Owl
43subscribes to the default subscriptions and to anything found in
44~/.zephyr.subs.  When this option is used no subscriptions are loaded.
[7d4fbcd]45.LP
46
47.B \-c \fIconfigfile\fP
48.IP
[5f82eb3]49Specifiy an alternate config file for Owl to use.  The default
50configuration file is ~/.owlconf
[7d4fbcd]51.LP
52
53.B \-t \fItty\fP
54.IP
55Specifiy the tty name to use for the zephyr location.
56.LP
57
58.B \-v
59.IP
60Print the version number of owl and exit.
61.LP
62
[5f82eb3]63.B \-d
64.IP
65Enable debugging.  By default debugging information is placed in
66/var/tmp/owldebug.
67.LP
68
69.B \-D
70.IP
71Enable debugging, but first delete any existing debugging file.
72.LP
73
74.B \-h
75.IP
76Print command line option help.
77.LP
78
[7d4fbcd]79.SH AUTHOR
80Written by James Kretchmar at the Massachusetts Institute of
81Technology.
82Comments, questions, and bug reports may be mailed to
[1d1244a2]83\fBbug-owl@ktools.org\fP.
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