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diff --git a/network/ircII/README b/network/ircII/README index 330bfe39e2..f2d2f4add4 100644 --- a/network/ircII/README +++ b/network/ircII/README @@ -6,9 +6,20 @@ variety of additional options. ircII is the oldest IRC client still maintained. +ircII has extensive built-in help, accessed by the /help command. If +you'd rather read the help in a browser, it's also available as: + +file:///usr/doc/ircII-20210616_2/html/index.html + By default, this SlackBuild sets the default IRC server to "SSLIRC/chat.freenode.org:6697". This only applies with ircII is run without a server argument on the command line. You can change the default server by setting the DEFSRV environment variable to the host:port (with optional SSLIRC/ prefix for a secure connection), or compile without a default server with DEFSRV=none. + +Optionally, ircII can be compiled with 'paranoid mode'. This stops +ircII from including the ircII version or realname/username in CTCP +VERSION and FINGER responses. It also stops ircII from responding to +channel-wide CTCP requests entirely. To do this, export PARANOID=yes +in the script's environment. |