BarnOwl - tty‐based zephyr client
barnowl [-n] [-d] [-D] [-v] [-h] [-c
CONFIGFILE] [-t
TTY]
[-s
CONFIGDIR]
BarnOwl is a fully integrated tty‐based instant messaging client.
Currently it supports AOL Instant Messenger, MIT Zephyr, Jabber, IRC, and
Twitter. It is curses‐based, allows for emacs‐style editing of
outgoing messages, and uses Perl as an extension and configuration language.
BarnOwl will also run happily without a configuration file.
Once
BarnOwl is started, typing ‘h’ will display a help
screen. Typing ‘:’ enters command mode, allowing the user to
type a
BarnOwl command line.
The following command-line options are avilable when running
BarnOwl:
-
-n, --no-subs
- Do not subscribe to zephyr messages on startup. By default,
BarnOwl subscribes to the default subscriptions and to anything
found in ~/.zephyr.subs. When this option is used, no subscriptions
are loaded.
-
-c, --config-file=FILE
- Specify an alternate config file for BarnOwl to use.
The config file is an arbitrary Perl script evaluated in the main
package, and if it overrides the BarnOwl::startup method that is
run when BarnOwl starts. (Compare ~/.owl/startup, which
contains BarnOwl commands that are run at startup after the config
file is loaded.)
By default, BarnOwl uses the first of ~/.owl/init.pl,
~/.barnowlconf, or ~/.owlconf that exists.
-
-s, --config-dir=DIR
- Specify an alternate configuration directory. By default,
BarnOwl uses ~/.owl/.
-
-t, --tty=TTY
- Specify the tty name to use for the zephyr location.
-
-v, --version
- Print the version number of BarnOwl and exit.
-
-d, --debug
- Enable debugging. By default, debugging information is
placed in /var/tmp/barnowl-debug.PID.
-
-h, --help
- Print command‐line option help.
Written by Nelson Elhage and Alejandro Sedeno at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Based on Owl by James Kretchmar.
Comments, questions, and bug reports may be mailed to
[email protected].