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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

Alright, here goes....

Getting to the InterNetWorkers IRC Channel, Revision 1

So you want to get connected to the new INW IRC channel? Here's what 
you need:

An IRC client. There is as much debate about clients as there is about 
emacs vs. vi. Its all up to whichever you like better. That said, Irssi 
is the best command-line IRC client. Period. All I know about IRC on 
Windows is that mIRC is frowned upon by most people on other platforms.

Now, once you have an IRC client, you have to connect to the IRC 
server. There is a massive number of servers, and our room is located 
on the Freenode network of servers. Freenode operates several servers, 
and directs users as they log on to the server with the lowest load. To 
conenct to the network, once you have Irssi open (or any other 
command-line client, GUI clients are prone to be different), type 
"/connect freenode". The "/" tells the IRC client that the following 
line is a command. You can just enter "freenode" because Irssi has the 
full address (irc.freenode.net) already set up in it.

Once you get conencted to freenode, you just type in "/join #inw" and 
you're here. All IRC rooms begin with a # sign.

When you're in the room, you can just type something in, and hit enter, 
and it sends. If you want to address a certain person, say, 
"John_Jenkelheimer-Smith", you don't want to type that whole nick, just 
type a few letters and hit tab. It will complete the nick. Thus you 
have just used "Tab Complete". Learn to love it, its great.

Other Stuff:
- To change your nickname, type "/nick <new nick>". If its taken, you 
will get a warning to change it to something else.
- To set youself as away: type "/away <reason>". This will set your 
status to away. If anyone sends you a message while you are away (eg, 
sends "Joe: you around?" in the room, it gets saved in your away log. 
When you return, type "/away" again, and check in the first window to 
see the away log.
- To change windows in Irssi, you can type "/win n" where n is the 
window number, or, press Alt-n, where n is the number, or 
press-and-release Esc, and then hit n.

Alright....thats the basics, I think.

More in SSH, Screen, and Irssi later.

Greatly in need of sleep,
Ian

On Oct 27, 2003, at 9:36 PM, Thomas Beckett wrote:

> Ian Meyer wrote:
> > What should I do after I write this up? Who should I send it to? Just 
> > to the list?
>
> Sure, send it to this list.  But tailor it to a non-Trilug audience. 
> Folks here have a wide variety and range of technical ability and 
> experience.  If people have questions, ye geeks can drill down into 
> the detail.  But for starters, keep it simple and practical.
>
> Thanks to all for adding the IRC dimension to InterNetWorkers.  I will 
> be curious to see how it develops.
>
> TaB
>
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