owl(1) General Commands Manual owl(1)NAME
owl - tty based zephyr client
SYNOPSIS
owl [ -n ] [ -d ] [ -D ] [ -v ] [ -h ] [ -c configfile ] [ -t tty ]
DESCRIPTION
Owl is a fully integrated tty based instant messaging client. Currently it supports AOL Instant Messenger and MIT Zephyr. It is curses-
based, allows for emacs style editing of outgoing messages and uses a perl configuration language for setting options and customizing mes-
sage formatting. Owl will also run happily without a configuration file.
Once Owl is started, typing 'h' will display a help screen. Typing ':' enters command mode, allowing the user to type an owl command line.
USE
The following command line options are avilable when running owl:
-n
Do not subscribe to zephyr messages on startup. By default Owl subscribes to the default subscriptions and to anything found in
~/.zephyr.subs. When this option is used no subscriptions are loaded.
-c configfile
Specifiy an alternate config file for Owl to use. The default configuration file is ~/.owlconf
-t tty
Specifiy the tty name to use for the zephyr location.
-v
Print the version number of owl and exit.
-d
Enable debugging. By default debugging information is placed in /var/tmp/owldebug.
-D
Enable debugging, but first delete any existing debugging file.
-h
Print command line option help.
AUTHOR
Written by James Kretchmar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Comments, questions, and bug reports may be mailed to bug-
owl@ktools.org.
10 Apr 2004 owl(1)
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TZC(1) General Commands Manual TZC(1)NAME
tzc - trivial zephyr client
SYNOPSIS
tzc [options]
DESCRIPTION
Tzc is a zephyr client program which talks to the zephyr servers (via the "zephyr host manager") and to a gnu-emacs running zephyr-mode.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-a nseconds
Restart tzc every nseconds seconds.
-e exposure
Set exposure. (values: NONE, OPSTAFF, REALM-VISIBLE, REALM-ANNOUNCED, NET-VISIBLE, NET-ANNOUNCED)
-l, location
Set zlocation to the string location. The default is tzc.n, where n is tzc's pid.
-p filename
Write tzc's process-id to the file filename.
-s Use zctl for subscriptions (read from ~/zephyr.subs.tzc)
-t nseconds
If no zephyrgrams arrive in nseconds seconds, send a test message to mkae sure we're alive. If nseconds is zero, disable this fea-
ture. Default is 300 seconds.
-o Run tzc in output-only mode. Tzc will just print zephyrgrams, and not accept commands from stdin
-i Ignore eof on input
-d Print debugging information.
SEE ALSO zephyr(1), zwgc(1), zwrite(1), zctl(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
July 15, 2002 TZC(1)
I was hoping someone could assist me on a text-based instant messaging client(using UDP) I am working on. I have the network communication basics already in place but, specifically, needed some further help on the "messaging other users" and "getting a user list" functions. The server code that... (0 Replies)
Is it possible to pipe a command in to an instant messenger e.g pidgin, finch or something similar and have it send??? e.g echo "hello" | messenger Or is there anything similar?? Thanks in advance! (1 Reply)
Hi,
Could you please tell me how to check instant client is installed in Linux server?
OS -- Linux 5.11
Oracle -- 10.2.0.5.0
Regards,
Maddy (2 Replies)