IRC User Guide

Never used IRC before? This page will help get you up to speed and provide a quick reference guide for you!

Beginner commands

• Changing your nickname is done with:

• /nick name

• Joining a room is done with:

• /join #room

• Leaving a room is done with:

• /part #room

• Sending someone a private message is done with:

• /query user message

• Display all available channels:

• /list

What different symbols mean

+ - User has voice in a room.

• Strictly symbolic.

@ - User has operator status in the room.

• User can kick, ban/unban, quiet/unquiet for that room only.

Miscellaneous Commands

• /me does something

• /whois nickname

• /away away-message-here

• /quit [optional farewell message]

NickServ commands

Nickserv allows nickname based commands, here's a basic rundown of the most commonly used commands.

• /msg nickserv register password email

• Registers your current nickname so nobody else can use it.

• Once registerred, you will need to identify to your nickname whenever you log on. (Explained below)

• Registerring will automatically provide you with a hostmask matching tripsit/user/Username. This is shown instead of your scrambled host.

• /msg nickserv identify {username} password

• Allows you to sign in to your nickserv registerred account. (Explained above)

• username is optional, can be used to identify to your nickname while using a different nick.

• /msg nickserv ghost username password

• Allows you to remotely disconnect anybody currently using your nickserv registerred nickname.

• Useful when your connection drops and you don't want to wait for the ping timeout.