NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/alt/irc/4899

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:09:52 GMT

Since so many have encouraged me to do a whole help file of yazbot,
and encouraged me to advertise it, I decided to post to alt.irc this
186 lines long text file.  Those who do not want to see it can
skip this article -- if you cannot, contact your local news admin
(or ask me for my superb news-reader ;).

-- skip here --
:: HELPs from yazbot on IRC ::  Fri Jan  8 20:49 :: [e-mail] ::

-> *yazbot* help
-yazbot- Commands:
-yazbot-  BIBLE   BOTUSERS        BULL    CALC    DATE    FINGER
-yazbot-  HELP    INFO    JARGON  KAMA    MAIL    MSG
-yazbot-  MVERIFY NEWS    NICWHOIS        NSLOOK  PARTY   QURAN
-yazbot-  REGISTER        RFC     STATS   TRACEROUTE      WHOIS
-yazbot- To find out how to use those commands: HELP <command>
-yazbot- Yazbot is case sensetive with everything else than commands.

-> *yazbot* help bible
-yazbot- Sends you a verse from the Bible.
-yazbot-  BIBLE <book> <X:Y>  (for example: bible exodus 1:1).
-yazbot- To get the list of books use command BIBLE without arguments.

-> *yazbot* help botusers
-yazbot- Shows some statistics about yazbot users.
-yazbot-  BOTUSERS..........numerical info about users
-yazbot-  BOTUSERS TODAY..............today's userlist
-yazbot-  BOTUSERS REGISTERED <part>..registered users
-yazbot- Each <part> is 16 lines long.
-yazbot- If you want more options, MSG yaz.

-> *yazbot* help bull
-yazbot- There is now a Bulletin Board in yazbot. Commands:
-yazbot-  BULL..............checks how many notes there is
-yazbot-  BULL READ..................reads the whole board
-yazbot-  BULL READ <from>,<to>..........reads given notes
-yazbot-  BULL ADD................adds a line to the board
-yazbot- For example: BULL READ 1,5

-> *yazbot* help calc
-yazbot- Simple four operand calculator.  + - * /
-yazbot-  CALC <number> <operand> <number> <operand> <num...
-yazbot- For example: CALC 1.01+0.1+1.3
-yazbot-     results: 2.41
-yazbot- The scale of calculations is determined by the first number.
-yazbot- Note: All operators are equal. It is not scientific.

-> *yazbot* help date
-yazbot- Dating service. Add lines to your ad or delete it, or read others.
-yazbot-  DATE..................lists first line of each ad
-yazbot-  DATE ADD <a line of info>....adds line to your ad
-yazbot-  DATE READ <nickname>..........reads nickname's ad
-yazbot-  DATE DELETE.......................deletes your ad
-yazbot- The first line of your ad should be a kind of subject line.

-> *yazbot* help finger
-yazbot- Fingers someone, just like unix finger.
-yazbot-  FINGER [user]@<host>
-yazbot- For example, FINGER [e-mail]

-> *yazbot* help help
-yazbot- What do you expect ?  Help about help
-yazbot- Ok, here is help:
-yazbot-  HELP <command>........shows help about command
-yazbot- For example: HELP REGISTER

-> *yazbot* help info
-yazbot- It is just some info about me.  INFO

-> *yazbot* help jargon
-yazbot- Reads The Jargon File from the first occurance of :string:
-yazbot-  JARGON <part_number>....reads a part from the beginning
-yazbot-  JARGON <part_> <string>.from the 1st occurance of string
-yazbot- For example: JARGON 1
-yazbot-  or example: JARGON 1 :hacker:
-yazbot- Notice the delimiters :  and :  You may omit the second,
-yazbot- if you don't know how the string ends in the jargon file.

-> *yazbot* help kama
-yazbot- Reads parts from the Kama Sutra.
-yazbot-  KAMA <number from 1 to 40>
-yazbot- For example: KAMA 1
-yazbot- Each part is 16 lines long.

-> *yazbot* help mail
-yazbot- Simple mail for those without real e-mail on IRC.
-yazbot-  MAIL.........................checks your mail
-yazbot-  MAIL ADD <nick> <text>....writes mail to nick
-yazbot-  MAIL SEND <nick> [nicklist]........sends mail
-yazbot-  MAIL READ <nick>.....reads mail from nickname
-yazbot-  MAIL DELETE <nick>.deletes mail from nickname
-yazbot-  MAIL FORWARD ADD <e-mail_addr>....add forward
-yazbot-  MAIL FORWARD DELETE <e-mail_addr>...delete it
-yazbot-  MAIL FORWARD LIST..lists your e-mail forwards
-yazbot-  MAIL FORWARD LIST <nick>..nick's forward-file
-yazbot- First add-ed text is treated as the subject line.
-yazbot- Remember to use mail send when finished adding lines.

-> *yazbot* help msg
-yazbot- Leaves a message to yaz.  MSG <text>

-> *yazbot* help mverify
-yazbot- Mail-verifies someone, just like unix mverify.
-yazbot-  MVERIFY <user>@<host>
-yazbot- For example, MVERIFY [e-mail]

-> *yazbot* help news
-yazbot- Simple news-agent for reading news.
-yazbot-  NEWS CHECK <group>...........checks high and low article numbers
-yazbot-  NEWS HEAD <group> [low [hi]]........lists from & subject headers
-yazbot-  NEWS READ <group> <article_number> <part>..reads part of article
-yazbot-  NEWS LIST <part>........................lists part of newsgroups
-yazbot-  NEWS LIST GREP <text> <part>............greps part of newsgroups
-yazbot- For example: NEWS CHECK alt.irc

-> *yazbot* help nicwhois
-yazbot- Checks the NIC.DDN.MIL database for host/net/person
-yazbot-  NICWHOIS <entry_to_searc_for>
-yazbot- For Example: NICWHOIS tkk4
-yazbot- BEWARE! The output might be longer than you think!

-> *yazbot* help nslook
-yazbot- Takes a look at nameserver.
-yazbot-  NSLOOK <hostname or IP-number>
-yazbot- If you know just the hostname, it tells you the IP-number.
-yazbot- And if you know the IP-number, it tells you the hostname.

-> *yazbot* help party
-yazbot- Party service. Add lines to your ad or delete it, or read others.
-yazbot-  PARTY....Lists nickname and the first lines of each party
-yazbot-  PARTY ADD <information about your party>...Adds new party
-yazbot-  PARTY READ <nickname>.........Reads the party of nickname
-yazbot-  PARTY DELETE...........................Deletes your party
-yazbot-  PARTY JOIN <nickname>..............Joins nickname's party
-yazbot-  PARTY LIST <nickname>...............Lists how many guests
-yazbot-  PARTY WHO <nickname>...........Who have joined that party
-yazbot-  PARTY WHOIRC <nickname>......nickname's guests on irc now
-yazbot-  PARTY MAIL <e-mail addr>.....Joins the party mailing list
-yazbot-  PARTY SEND........Sends your ad to the party mailing list
-yazbot- The first line of your ad will be the subject line.

-> *yazbot* help quran
-yazbot- Sends you a verse from the Qur'an.
-yazbot-  QURAN...............sends you a long index of Qur'an
-yazbot-  QURAN <surah> <ayah>...reads the ayah from the surah
-yazbot- For example: QURAN 114 1
-yazbot- The Qur'an has 114 surahs. The bigger the surah number
-yazbot- the shorter it is (less ayahs).

-> *yazbot* help register
-yazbot- Registers your nickname, username and host.
-yazbot-  REGISTER <password>.........register yourself
-yazbot-  REGISTER -SILENT <password>....do it silently
-yazbot- This is essential if you want to use these commands:
-yazbot- MAIL, DATE, PARTY

-> *yazbot* help rfc
-yazbot- Reads parts from RFCs or FYIs.
-yazbot-  RFC INDEX <part>.........rfc-index
-yazbot-  RFC TITLE <part>.........rfc-by-title
-yazbot-  RFC AUTHOR <part>........rfc-by-author
-yazbot-  RFC <number> <part>......rfc itself
-yazbot-  RFC FYI INDEX <part>.....fyi-index
-yazbot-  RFC FYI TITLE <part>.....fyi-by-title
-yazbot-  RFC FYI AUTHOR <part>....fyi-by-author
-yazbot-  RFC FYI <number> <part>..fyi itself
-yazbot- Each part is 16 lines long.

-> *yazbot* help stats
-yazbot- For example: RFC 1060 1
-yazbot- Lists statistics about bot-commands since last reboot.
-yazbot-  STATS....................shows total yazbot usage
-yazbot-  STATS <nickname>....shows nickname's yazbot usage
-yazbot-  STATS -IU <nick> <#month>..approximated IRC usage
-yazbot-  STATS -DIU <nick> <#day>.......graph of IRC usage
-yazbot- You have to be a registered user to see others stats.
-yazbot- For example: STATS -DIU yaz 305

-> *yazbot* help traceroute
-yazbot- Traces the Internet route for a host from phoenix.oulu.fi
-yazbot-  TRACEROUTE..............shows the usage for this command
-yazbot-  TRACEROUTE [flags] <hostname or IP-number>..traces route
-yazbot- Recommend flag: -m <max_ttl>
-yazbot- Where max_ttl is the Time To Live for that process.
-yazbot- Explanation about other flags is missing, sorry.

-> *yazbot* help whois
-yazbot- Checks who a registered user of yazbot is.
-yazbot-  WHOIS <nickname>....shows couple of lines of information
-yazbot- You have to be a registered yazbot user to use this command.
-yazbot- Check HELP REGISTER if you don't know how to register.

:: End Of File :: HELPs from yazbot on IRC :: [e-mail] ::

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