LIST OF ALL USER COMMANDS AVAILABLE
These commands are available to every user in the chat. Some of them can only be
used under certain circumstances, eg. channel ownership, but in general every user
can use every command. All commands start with a '/' or a '.' or a ','. It also
doesn't matter, if they are typed in lower- or uppercase. The commands are borrowed
from IRC to make the usage as easy as possible (especially for users who are already
familar with the IRC commands). For backward compatibility the old commands,
which were used in the first distribution of Melange are also supported. (In the following
lists, they are written inside brackets, eg. (.he) for help)
NOTE FOR MELANGE 1.10 or higher:
If the unique-nickname feature is enabled, you can
use the user's nickname instead of the uses's ID uid
in every command you have to select a user. This does also work
if the unique-nickname feature is disabled, but only with those nicknames
which ARE unique ! If there are more users with the
same nickname you have to use the uid.
COMMAND | PARAMETER | VERSION |
/ADMIN | command cmd, parameter p | 0.91 |
This is the command for the administrator features. For details, how
to use this features, see the administrator-
features page.
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/FINGER (.f) | none | 0.90-2 |
Lists all users inside the chat, showing their nickname,
their user id (line) the channel they are in, and where they
come from.
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/GROUP | GroupId grpid, Password passwd | 1.10 |
To become a member of a specific group (NOTE: you can only belong
to one group at the same time) you have to use this command.
grpid is the number of the group you want to join and
passwd is the group's password. If you want to leave the
group you currently belong to, type /GROUP system.
(NOTE: You don't need a password for the system group, of course !)
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/HELP (.he) | none | 0.90-2 |
Displays a list of all commands available.
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/INVITE | UserID uid | 0.93 |
Invite a user to your channel. To use this command, you have
to be the owner of the channel. Usually no user can join
your channel if it is locked. If you want a user to come into
your channel, while it is locked, use this command. The user
specified by uid is then allowed to join your channel, although
it is private.
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/JOIN (.c) | ChannelID cid OR Channelname name | 0.90-2 |
This is one of the most important commands. It's used for
joining, or opening a channel. If you use the command
with a Channel ID or a channelname of an existing channel,
you join/move to this channel (If the channel you tried to
join is locked, you receive an error-message, instead).
If you use this command with a Channel ID or channelname
of an NON-existing channel, you create this channel and move
into it. You are then the owner of this channel and can
use commands like /TOPIC /KICK /OWN /LOCK /INVITE etc. If you are the
owner of a channel and you move to another channel, or if you
leave the chat, your channel is closed. To avoid this, you could
change the owner of your channel before.
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/KICK | UserID uid | 0.91 |
Kick a user out of your channel. To use this command, you have
to be the owner of the channel. The user, you kick out is not
thrown out of the chat, but thrown back to Channel 0 (MAIN).
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/LIST (.a) | none | 0.90-2 |
List all channels available. This commands displays all open
channels, their channel IDs, their owners and if they are locked.
Only those channels which belong to the SYSTEM-group or
to the group you are currently in, are shown ! This means, all
channels you are allowed to choin are displayed.
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/LOCK (.l) | none | 0.90-2 |
Lock/Unlock a channel. To use this command, you have to be
the owner of the channel you are in. If you lock a channel,
no other users can change to/join your channel (If you
don't invite them explicitly before). If you use this
command a second time, the channel is unlocked/open again,
and everybody can join it.
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/LOGIN | nickname | 1.10 |
If the unique-nickname feature is enabled, you have to
use this command to get into the chat. When you connect to
the server you are at first not able to do most things,
you even can't chat with other persons. After you found
a nickname which is not already in use by another person
you can enter the chat using this /LOGIN command.
If the guestlogin feature is enabled, instead of
an unique nickname you can use the name guest
to enter the chat. (NOTE: There may be more persons with
this nickname).
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/ME (.id) | none | 0.90-2 |
Displays your name, your user id, the channel you are in,
the channel name and the group you belong to.
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/MSG or /NOTICE (.p) | UserID uid, Message msg | 0.90-2 |
Sends a private message msg to the user specified by uid.
The user the message is sent to, has to bee in the same channels
as the sender.
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/NICK (.n) | Nickname nickname | 0.90-2 |
If you want to change your nickname, use this command.
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/OWN (.o) | UserID uid | 0.90-2 |
Change the owner of a channel. To use this command, you have
to be the owner of the channel you are in. The user specified
by uid is then the new owner of your channel. Note, the
user you want to give the ownership to, has to be in the same
channel !
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/QUIT (.qu) | none | 0.90-2 |
Say goodbye and leave the chat.
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/SETGROUP | GroupID grpid | 1.10 |
If you are the owner of the channel you are currently in, you
can use this command to change the channel's group. (Note:
Only groupmembers can join channels which are not owned
by the SYSTEM [default])). For example if you type /SETGROUP 10
only those users, who belong to group 10 can join the channel.
If you want to make the channel be open for everbody again,
type /SETGROUP system. Afterwards everybody can
join this channel again (if it's not locked, of course).
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/SQUELCH (.s) | UserID uid | 0.90-2 |
Squelch/Unsquelch a user. If you squelch a user, no messages
from this person, even if they are yelled, are displayed. If
you use the command a second time with the same user id, the
user is unsquelched again, and you can see his messages again.
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/TIME | none | 0.99a |
Displays current date and time of day, using "normal" time format
AND
Internettime (BMT, Biel Mean Time), which is good for making
dates :)
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/TOPIC (.r) | Channelname name | 0.90-2 |
If you create a new channel, your channel is called "Channel cid"
by default, where cid stands for the channel ID of your channel.
If you want to change your channel's name to something else, use
this command. For example /TOPIC hansi will change your channel's
name to "hansi".
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/UP | none | 0.94 |
Displays server uptime.
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/VER (.v) | none | 0.90-2 |
Displays server's version.
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/YELL (.y) | Message msg | 0.90-2 |
Cross channel yelling. If you use this command, all users in
all channels (even if they are locked) can see your message.
Only those persons, who squelched the user who yells, can't
see the message. (But if you use this command too often, don't forget
that the chat-admin can kick you out and/or bann your host !)
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/WHOIS (.w) | none | 0.90-2 |
Lists all users in your channel with their User ID (line),
and if you squelched them or not.
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