owl1

Usage

Overview

Owl is a fully integrated tty based instant messaging client. Currently it supports AOL Instant Messenger and MIT Zephyr. It is curses-based, allows for emacs style editing of outgoing messages and uses a perl configuration language for setting options and customizing message formatting. Owl will also run happily without a configuration file.

Once Owl is started, typing 'h' will display a help screen. Typing ´:´ enters command mode, allowing the user to type an owl command line.

Use

The following command line options are avilable when running owl:

-n

Do not subscribe to zephyr messages on startup. By default Owl subscribes to the default subscriptions and to anything found in ~/.zephyr.subs. When this option is used no subscriptions are loaded.

-c configfile

Specifiy an alternate config file for Owl to use. The default configuration file is ~/.owlconf

-t tty

Specifiy the tty name to use for the zephyr location.

-v

Print the version number of owl and exit.

-d

Enable debugging. By default debugging information is placed in /var/tmp/owldebug.

-D

Enable debugging, but first delete any existing debugging file.

-h

Print command line option help.