ari-yahoo1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the ari-yahoo commands. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

The program is run like:
ari-yahoo <username>
where <username> is your Yahoo! ID. You will then be asked for a password, which will not be displayed as you type it. The program will then log you in to Yahoo Messenger. The prompt consists of an ID followed by a colon (':') and an area to type your input. If no ID has been selected, '<none>' is displayed. Commands begin with a forward slash ('/'), and anything that you type that does not begin with a slash is sent as a message to the presently-selected Yahoo! ID. Incoming messages, status updates, connection and disconnection notifications, and other things of interest will be displayed.

The following commands are available:

/help

Shows a list of commands.

/who

Shows a list of friends, with an asterisk ('*') before each connected user and their status displayed when necessary in square brackets after their Yahoo! ID.

/query <ID>

Selects the given ID as the new target for messages, or, if no ID is given, deselects the presently targeted ID.

/status <#>

Changes your status. Without a status number or with an invalid status number, it will give a list of available statuses.

/quit

Quits the program and logs out of Yahoo Messenger.