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Re: [Erc-discuss] Re: How do I send /HELP to the server, not erc?
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard |
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Re: [Erc-discuss] Re: How do I send /HELP to the server, not erc? |
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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:56:09 -0500 |
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Andreas Davour <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Michael Olson wrote:
>> Andreas Davour <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I just realized that since I get much spam I might want to take a look
>>> at the modes for my nick and change some flags.
>>>
>>> I think that +i is what I wanted, but in order to make sure I typed
>>> /help mode', and annoyingly got a response from erc, and not from the
>>> server. The 'help' from erc wasn't all that helpful, so I'd like the
>>> bahaviour I used to get when I typed /help in ircII. Is it possible?
>>
>> I could be wrong, but I think that /help is not a real command, and is
>> actually provided by the client.
>>
ERC> /quote /help
>> *** /help: Unknown command
> Since it's giving me something back, and Damien knew about it, I'm guessing
> it's
> not client specific, but server specific.
Actually, what you should type is:
/quote HELP
On freenode, this will cause the server to send you back a list of
commands that it accepts.
The '/quote' command in ERC sends the remainder of the string directly
to the server. As (per the specification) IRC commands do not begin
with a '/', '/help' is an invalid command, at least on most servers.
For instance, you could also type:
/quote PRIVMSG yournicknamegoeshere :Hello
and it would send yournicknamegoeshere the message "Hello".
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard