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[1d1244a2] | 1 | .TH owl 1 "10 Apr 2004" |
[7d4fbcd] | 2 | .SH NAME |
3 | owl \- 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] | 26 | is a fully integrated tty based instant messaging client. Currently |
27 | it supports AOL Instant Messenger and MIT Zephyr. It is curses-based, | |
28 | allows for emacs style editing of outgoing messages and uses a perl | |
29 | configuration language for setting options and customizing message | |
30 | formatting. Owl will also run happily without a configuration file. | |
[7d4fbcd] | 31 | |
[5f82eb3] | 32 | Once 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] | 34 | line. |
[7d4fbcd] | 35 | |
36 | .PP | |
37 | .SH USE | |
38 | The following command line options are avilable when running owl: | |
39 | ||
40 | .B \-n | |
41 | .IP | |
[5f82eb3] | 42 | Do not subscribe to zephyr messages on startup. By default Owl |
43 | subscribes 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] | 49 | Specifiy an alternate config file for Owl to use. The default |
50 | configuration file is ~/.owlconf | |
[7d4fbcd] | 51 | .LP |
52 | ||
53 | .B \-t \fItty\fP | |
54 | .IP | |
55 | Specifiy the tty name to use for the zephyr location. | |
56 | .LP | |
57 | ||
58 | .B \-v | |
59 | .IP | |
60 | Print the version number of owl and exit. | |
61 | .LP | |
62 | ||
[5f82eb3] | 63 | .B \-d |
64 | .IP | |
65 | Enable debugging. By default debugging information is placed in | |
66 | /var/tmp/owldebug. | |
67 | .LP | |
68 | ||
69 | .B \-D | |
70 | .IP | |
71 | Enable debugging, but first delete any existing debugging file. | |
72 | .LP | |
73 | ||
74 | .B \-h | |
75 | .IP | |
76 | Print command line option help. | |
77 | .LP | |
78 | ||
[7d4fbcd] | 79 | .SH AUTHOR |
80 | Written by James Kretchmar at the Massachusetts Institute of | |
81 | Technology. | |
82 | Comments, questions, and bug reports may be mailed to | |
[1d1244a2] | 83 | \fBbug-owl@ktools.org\fP. |
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