1CENTERIM(1)                 General Commands Manual                CENTERIM(1)
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NAME

6       centerim  -  a  text mode based IM client for Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris,
7       MacOS X and possibly, other Unices. ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM TOC, IRC, MSN,
8       Gadu-Gadu  and Jabber protocols are now supported. Internal LiveJournal
9       client and RSS reader are also provided.
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SYNOPSIS

13       centerim [ option ] ...
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DESCRIPTION

17       This manual page documents briefly the centerim command.
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19       centerim is a text mode menu- and  window-driven  IM  interface.   Cur‐
20       rently  ICQ2000,  Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols
21       are supported. It allows you to send, receive,  and  forward  messages,
22       URLs, SMSes and, contacts, mass message send, search for users (includ‐
23       ing extended "whitepages search"), view users' details,  maintain  your
24       contact  list  directly  from the program (including non-icq contacts),
25       view the messages history, register a new UIN and update your  details,
26       be  informed  on receiving email messages, automatically set away after
27       the defined period of inactivity (on any console), and  have  your  own
28       ignore,  visible and invisible lists. It can also associate events with
29       sounds, add events to the outgoing  queue  from  command  line,  define
30       external  event  processing  actions  (like  events  auto-forwarding or
31       elizatalk), has support for Hebrew and Arabic languages and  allows  to
32       arrange contacts into groups.
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OPTIONS

36       -a, --ascii
37              use ascii characters to draw lines and boxes
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39       -h, --help
40              display command line usage
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42       -v, --version
43              show the program version info
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45       -b, --basedir <directory>
46              specify  another  base  directory;  useful for having several IM
47              identities under the same UNIX account
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49       -B, --bind <hostname/ip>
50              tells centerim to use the specified IP address for outgoing con‐
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53       -B, --no-xtitles
54              disable title changing in xterm or screen
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57              start with all protocols set offline
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60       The  following  commands  are  used to put events to the outgoing queue
61       from the command line. If centerim is already  running  they're  to  be
62       sent  immediately,  otherwise  they  will be sent as soon as you go on-
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67       -s, --send <event type>
68              This parameter specifies the type of event  you  want  to  send.
69              Currently only "msg", "url" and "sms" are supported.
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71       -p, --proto <protocol type>
72              This  one  specifies to which IM network the destination contact
73              belongs. Can be "icq", "yahoo", "aim", "irc", "jab", "msn", "gg"
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76       -t, --to <nickname or UIN>
77              With  this  one  you  specify nickname or UIN of the destination
78              contact. For icq it's possible to specify 0 to  send  events  to
79              yourself. Only SMSes are known to be possible to be sent to one‐
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82       -n, --number <phone number>
83              Using this parameter you can send SMSes to  any  mobile  numbers
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87       The message text is read from the standard input, so use pipes in shell
88       to pass it. For example, you can say "hi" to me through the ICQ network
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93       In case you want to send an URL, the URL itself and its description are
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96           $ echo -e "http://thekonst.net/\nMy modest  homepage."      |  cen‐
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99       Please  note,  that all three parameters are required in order to queue
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102       Finally, a small example of sending SMSes:
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107       It's also possible to change your current status  on  a  particular  IM
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111       -S, --status <status letter>
112              The  argument parameter is a letter which indicates which status
113              is to be set: o (Online), _ (Offline), a (Away), d  (Don't  dis‐
114              turb), n (N/A), c (Occupied), f (Free for chat), i (Invisible)
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116       -p or --proto <protocol name>
117              Exactly the same like it was described for the previous command.
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VERSION

134       centerim 4.22.1
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BUG REPORT

138       Report any bugs at our Bugzilla site at http://bugzilla.centerim.org/
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AUTHOR

142       This page and centerim was originally written  by  Konstantin  Klyagin.
143       Currently, several people are maintaining this software project.
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WEB

147       http://www.centerim.org/
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151                                 April 2, 2007                     CENTERIM(1)
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