1 .TH CENTERICQ 1 "August 21, 2003"
4 \fBcentericq\fP \- a text mode based IM client for Linux, *BSD, Sun
5 Solaris, MacOS X and possibly, other Unices. ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM TOC,
6 IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols are now supported. Internal
7 LiveJournal client and RSS reader are also provided.
16 This manual page documents briefly the
20 \fBcentericq\fP is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface.
21 Currently ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols
22 are supported. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages,
23 URLs, SMSes and, contacts, mass message send, search for users
24 (including extended "whitepages search"), view users' details, maintain
25 your contact list directly from the program (including non-icq
26 contacts), view the messages history, register a new UIN and update your
27 details, be informed on receiving email messages, automatically set away
28 after the defined period of inactivity (on any console), and have your
29 own ignore, visible and invisible lists. It can also associate events
30 with sounds, add events to the outgoing queue from command line, define
31 external event processing actions (like events auto-forwarding or
32 elizatalk), has support for Hebrew and Arabic languages and allows to
33 arrange contacts into groups.
37 \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-ascii\fR
38 use ascii characters to draw lines and boxes
40 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
41 display command line usage
43 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
44 show the program version info
46 \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-basedir\fR <directory>
47 specify another base directory; useful for having several IM identities
48 under the same UNIX account
50 \fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-bind\fR <hostname/ip>
51 tells centericq to use the specified IP address for outgoing connections
53 \fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-no\-xtitles\fR
54 disable title changing in xterm or screen
56 \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-offline\fR
57 start with all protocols set offline
61 The following commands are used to put events to the outgoing queue from
62 the command line. If centericq is already running they're to be sent
63 immediately, otherwise they will be sent as soon as you go online.
67 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-send\fR <event type>
68 This parameter specifies the type of event you want to send.
69 Currently only "msg", "url" and "sms" are supported.
71 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-proto\fR <protocol type>
72 This one specifies to which IM network the destination contact
73 belongs. Can be "icq", "yahoo", "aim", "irc", "jab", "msn", "gg" or "lj".
75 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-to\fR <nickname or UIN>
76 With this one you specify nickname or UIN of the
77 destination contact. For icq it's possible to specify 0 to send
78 events to yourself. Only SMSes are known to be possible to be sent
81 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-number\fR <phone number>
82 Using this parameter you can send SMSes to any mobile numbers
83 through the ICQ network.
87 The message text is read from the standard input, so use pipes in shell
88 to pass it. For example, you can say "hi" to me through the ICQ network
89 with the following command:
91 \fB$ echo "hi" | centericq -s msg -p icq -t 17502151\fR
93 In case you want to send an URL, the URL itself and its description are
94 separated with a newline character the following way:
96 \fB$ echo -e "http://thekonst.net/\\nMy modest homepage." \
97 | centericq -s url -p icq -t 17502151\fR
99 Please note, that all three parameters are required in order to queue an
102 Finally, a small example of sending SMSes:
104 \fB$ echo "sms test" | centericq -s sms -n 1234567890\fR
109 It's also possible to change your current status on a particular IM
110 network with the following command line option.
113 \fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-status\fR <status letter>
114 The argument parameter is a letter which indicates which status is
115 to be set: o (Online), _ (Offline), a (Away), d (Don't disturb), n (N/A),
116 c (Occupied), f (Free for chat), i (Invisible)
118 \fB\-p\fR or \fB\-\-proto\fR <protocol name>
119 Exactly the same like it was described for the previous command.
126 \fB$ centericq -S _ -p icq\fR
128 This will set the icq status to offline. In other words, it'll be
129 disconnected immediately.
131 \fB$ centericq -S a -p yahoo\fR
133 And this command will switch your yahoo status to away.
140 Report any bugs to centericq-bugs@konst.org.ua
143 This page and centericq itself are written by Konstantin Klyagin
144 <konst@konst.org.ua>.
147 http://thekonst.net/centericq/