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- From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
- Subject: Re: Whois command
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.005011.17492@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU
- Nntp-Posting-Host: strummer.cbme.unsw.edu.au
- Organization: University of New South Wales
- References: <1992Aug17.231723.28993@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:50:11 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- From article <1992Aug17.231723.28993@u.washington.edu>, by malea@milton.u.washington.edu (Julie Thompson):
- > I am very new to irc and am probably asking something that's been asked before
- > but I am really curious. When I was conversing on one of the channels I used
- > the whois command to find out who people were and it worked for everyone but
- > one person. I know I typed it in correctly, but when I typed it for this one
- > person it appeared on the screen - can anyone tell me why?
-
- It was probably a nick with a backslash (or slosh) ('\') character in it.
- Under current versions of ircII you need to double up any backslash characters
- to achieve what you really want. This is due to a feature of ircII that has
- been used in the past by advanced users.
-
- Once the current development version (ircII 2.2) becomes the standard client,
- this problem will disappear.
- __________________________________________________________________________
- troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU Overworked, overcommited and always multitasking.
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- __________________________________________________________________________
- troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU Overworked, overcommited and always multitasking.
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