OICB(1)

NAME
oicb - command-line ICB client

SYNOPSIS
oicb [-dH] [-t secs] [nick@]host[:port] room

DESCRIPTION
The oicb is a minimalistic command-line ICB client. The options are as follows:

-d  Debug mode: enables printing some internal state information. If this flag is specified more than once, more stuff will be printed. Also, the Ctrl+X key combination is reserved in debug mode for developer needs.

-H  Disable local chat history saving (see below).

-t secs
    Set server timeout value to secs. The default is 30 (seconds).

nick
    Nickname to use on server. By default user's login name is used, as returned by getlogin(2).

host
    The ICB server host name or address. IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets, to disambiguate with port specification.

port
    The ICB server TCP port to use, defaulting to 7326.

room
    Name of the room to enter upon login.

CHAT HISTORY
By default, oicb saves chat history to ~/.oicb/logs/host directory. Chatroom logs are prefixed with ‘room-’ and private chats are prefixed with ‘private-’.

Up to 5 last nick names used for sending private messages during current login session are remembered and could easily be recovered by TAB or Shift+TAB keys. Also, the ^P will display current private chat names history; this is mostly a debugging tool and may disappear in future releases without further notice, unless proven useful by users.

SEE ALSO
Other ICB implementations: http://www.icb.net/.

The ICB protocol description: ftp://ftp.icb.net/pub/icb/src/icbd/Protocol.html

AUTHORS
Vadim Zhukov <zhuk@openbsd.org>