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$Id: PARTYLINE,v 1.13 2010/01/03 13:27:22 pseudo Exp $ |
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The Party Line |
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Last revised: December 31, 2001 |
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The Party Line |
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The most important way you will communicate with your bot is through |
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the party line. The party line is accessible via DCC chat or telnet. |
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It's pretty much just a miniature, lag-less IRC (see doc/BOTNET), but |
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it also consists of a console through which you can watch channel |
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activity and give commands. |
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To enter the party line, DCC chat or open a telnet connection to your |
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bot. It should ask for your password if you've set one. If you don't |
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have one set, use the /msg <bot> PASS <new password> command to set one. |
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The party line is actually split up into 200,000 "channels". The console |
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is available from each channel, but you can only talk to people who are |
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on your current channel (just like IRC). Channel 0 is the main party |
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line, while others are typically reserved for private conversations. |
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Channels 1-99,999 are botnet wide chat channels and any user joining |
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that channel anywhere on the botnet will be able to chat with you. |
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Channels *0-*99,999 are local channels (only people on the bot you |
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are on can chat with you on these channels). |
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Console commands start with a dot (.), similar to the slash (/) used |
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for IRC commands. At any time, you can type ".help all" to get a list |
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of all possible commands. To find out what a command does, use ".help |
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<command>". For example: ".help channel". |
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When you're on the party line, anything you type that doesn't start with |
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a dot (.), a comma (,), or an apostrophe (') is considered to be |
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broadcast to everyone else, just like talking on a channel. A message |
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prefixed with a comma goes only to other bot owners (+n). A message |
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prefixed with an apostrophe is sent to all users on the local bot only. |
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You can change channels with the ".chat" command or even leave all |
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channels with ".chat off". |
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Copyright (C) 2002 - 2011 Eggheads Development Team |