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Why do some of the commands start with a capital letter in the description? Is this technically accurate?
these commands are common but im not sure about them being universal as ive only used mirc before but
/server <server name> will connect you to a server
and /List >50 "search phrase" would list all channels with greater than 50 users and that comply with the search phrase
this list is supposed to be for "universal" irc commands, and the only way to expand this beyond like one or two more essentially universal /me and /mode-style commands is to start including ircd/services/client specific IRC commands so the list may be very incomplete in terms of being a definitive guide on commands, but considering its goal, i think that this article should be removed from the incomplete lists category.
And also, there are many modes that conflict with each other and aren't always available, so I'm not so sure about the universality of the mode list. ie RFC 2811 defined channel mode +a as an auditorium-style anonymous chat system, while unrealircd uses that to define a channel admin (+a in this case is NOT a user mode), and hybridircd uses that to make chanops anonymous. Also, there's the confusion between +l/L and +m/M, all four of which perform different tasks, but can be confused because the only difference between l and L or m and M is the capitalization. and finally, the +x currently listed as hiding hostmasks only hides hostmasks on unreal, while on hybrid it's a mode for receiving server notices. janey the crazy 19:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
is this command universal? it works on X-chat aqua and mIrc Epl18 19:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
This IP kept changing things to "moco" or "modo": 212.81.13.193 see history. Perhaps it can be watched or locked? Epl18 21:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Are we only listing common commands, or listing ones for specific IRC server environments? Some server modes, for example, don't work on the proprietary ChatSpace IRC server, and it also has variances on how its commands operates. I know other IRCd's have difference variances. Smeggysmeg 03:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
What does <nick!ident@host> mean i can't find it any where? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.221.116.86 ( talk • contribs)
nick = user's nickname ident = particular user from the host host = host (heheh) a sample hostmask would be: bob!~bobsmith@1234.isp.com, where bob is the user's nick, bobsmith is the ident and 1234.isp.com is the host (which can be just a regular IP, or a ridiculously long 12-34-56-78.abcde.some.isp.com, or something else in the case of a vhost). Hope that clears a couple things up. janey the crazy 12:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
what about that command? 70.111.236.90 13:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the point of ~n:(name)*!*@* is? This was recently done to a person in an IRC room and I couldn't understand what that was supposed to do to that certain user. He was still talking and all in the room as if it had no effect at all. It seems to me to be a junk command associated with /ban ViriiK 11:10, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Is it "universal" ? or server-dependent?
I want to contribute to the cleanup and expansion, but I'm not sure how to go about it. I'm not quite sure what is meant by 'uncyclopedic lists.'
For example, some modes, such as user modes g and d, vary greatly among different IRCds. Channel mode M, and perhaps R, originated with the bahamut IRCd, but I do not have a reliable citation. I believe the remark for Nefarious for user mode W is unnecessary, as it is likely a mode that originated from Unreal, and not Nefarious. Based on the frequency of change and variation of use on different IRCds, I feel the inclusion of specific modes would cause clutter.
Some commands have different behaviors depending on IRCd as well. An example, GLINE, is used to ban users from some networks based on their ident and hostname, but on others, it is used by special servers, commonly called 'ulines' or 'services' to ban users based on their GECOS data, or 'real name.'
Next, I'd like to make note that IRC commands do not include prefixes, like / or $. These are used by client software to formulate and send the commands. The actual commands are sent as alphanumeric characters. Some IRCds do behave differently based on the character casing of the commands. Is this a list of commands understood by clients, or understood as sent from clients? If the latter, msg should be changed to PRIVMSG, ctcp should be removed, etc etc etc.
To sum up my questions:
-- wshs 03:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
PASS NICK USER OPER MODE SERVICE QUIT SQUIT JOIN PART MODE TOPIC NAMES LIST INVITE KICK PRIVMSG NOTICE MOTD LUSERS VERSION STATS LINKS TIME CONNECT TRACE ADMIN INFO SERVLIST SQUERY WHO WHOIS WHOWAS KILL PING PONG ERROR AWAY REHASH DIE RESTART SUMMON USERS WALLOPS USERHOST ISON
SERVER NJOIN
--
M2Ys4U (
talk)
19:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)The name and the intro are absolutely incorrect and need to be changed (can the title even be changed?). What you are listing only has in parts to do with IRC commands - but in fact you are not talking about the protocol standard IRC but about the far-spread windows-based IRC-client mIRC. Many people do not seem to understand the difference.
The next thing is that mIRC comes with a help file (use /help <topic or command>) which provides a very detailed help.
Also the use of and the difference between aliases and variables need to be explained.
210.203.52.253 14:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Further to the discussion above in Cleanup and Wrong title!, I've decided to re-write the article using IRC commands as opposed to client-specific commands.
A copy of the old article is now at User:M2Ys4U/IRC -- M2Ys4U ( talk) 19:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
What about an article with all the extra little things that can be sent to cause something to happen. Ie especcially if you are stricly addhearing to server commands. I know of a one case where one would have to strictly stick to server commands. That case if with supybot, if one is to tell it to send a string to the server it must be done with server commands and not client program commands. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.60.34 ( talk) 05:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it just my IRC client, or do you always have to use all lowercase in the commands to make them work? If you always have to use lower case, do you think it would be a good idea to mention that in the article, or to make all the examples have lowercase. Also, mentioning that you have to put a "/" first, would help the newb's out. (like me!) Bdb4269 ( talk) 16:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Given the over-arching newb confusion about the difference between IRC and mIRC (a lot of which has been seen in the development of this very article) I think we need a page somewhere for mIRC commands (if there isn't one already, and which is basically what M2Ys4U has archived for us) and a notice on this page that there is a crucial difference between the two. Tomalak Geret'kal ( talk) 12:03, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
All I know is you say "User commands" and then below there are some "This command is used to ... It may only be sent by IRC operators."
Also you should group the commands with the most useful first... Jidanni ( talk) 19:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Where is the /clear command on the list? I've used mIRC, as well as irssi on my linux box, and it exists in both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.165.122.216 ( talk) 20:53, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
The recent {{ Prod}} has been reverted.
-- Lexein ( talk) 19:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
We've also been down this road before with AfDs for List of FTP commands and List of FTP server return codes (although I see someone has since redirected List of FTP commands). This list serves the same purposes as these and others such as List of MS-DOS commands and even List of HTTP status codes (I once did proper references for this one, [2] which then looked like this but got blindly reverted [3] by the guy who "wrote" the article for WP:OWN reasons).
I suppose I need to follow up with what I posted at WT:NOT because it looks like it rolled off into the archives with no response and as seen not only here but even at Talk:C standard library and this AfD, we are still having problems with misapplication of some of the "newer" additions to WP:NOT. While some of it might have been well-meaning when it was added, misapplication and/or misunderstanding of some of these WP:NOT entries is resulting in a lot of collateral damage within the WP:COMP scope. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 08:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Universal command? Should it be added to the list? 204.185.46.1 ( talk) 18:33, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I think those two commands are the same, or at least under UnrealIRCd. Anyway, it gets an argument (the help file's name), unlike the way it's described here. Galzigler ( talk) 22:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to get examples for each command? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.155.24 ( talk) 00:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
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Why do some of the commands start with a capital letter in the description? Is this technically accurate?
these commands are common but im not sure about them being universal as ive only used mirc before but
/server <server name> will connect you to a server
and /List >50 "search phrase" would list all channels with greater than 50 users and that comply with the search phrase
this list is supposed to be for "universal" irc commands, and the only way to expand this beyond like one or two more essentially universal /me and /mode-style commands is to start including ircd/services/client specific IRC commands so the list may be very incomplete in terms of being a definitive guide on commands, but considering its goal, i think that this article should be removed from the incomplete lists category.
And also, there are many modes that conflict with each other and aren't always available, so I'm not so sure about the universality of the mode list. ie RFC 2811 defined channel mode +a as an auditorium-style anonymous chat system, while unrealircd uses that to define a channel admin (+a in this case is NOT a user mode), and hybridircd uses that to make chanops anonymous. Also, there's the confusion between +l/L and +m/M, all four of which perform different tasks, but can be confused because the only difference between l and L or m and M is the capitalization. and finally, the +x currently listed as hiding hostmasks only hides hostmasks on unreal, while on hybrid it's a mode for receiving server notices. janey the crazy 19:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
is this command universal? it works on X-chat aqua and mIrc Epl18 19:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
This IP kept changing things to "moco" or "modo": 212.81.13.193 see history. Perhaps it can be watched or locked? Epl18 21:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Are we only listing common commands, or listing ones for specific IRC server environments? Some server modes, for example, don't work on the proprietary ChatSpace IRC server, and it also has variances on how its commands operates. I know other IRCd's have difference variances. Smeggysmeg 03:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
What does <nick!ident@host> mean i can't find it any where? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.221.116.86 ( talk • contribs)
nick = user's nickname ident = particular user from the host host = host (heheh) a sample hostmask would be: bob!~bobsmith@1234.isp.com, where bob is the user's nick, bobsmith is the ident and 1234.isp.com is the host (which can be just a regular IP, or a ridiculously long 12-34-56-78.abcde.some.isp.com, or something else in the case of a vhost). Hope that clears a couple things up. janey the crazy 12:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
what about that command? 70.111.236.90 13:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the point of ~n:(name)*!*@* is? This was recently done to a person in an IRC room and I couldn't understand what that was supposed to do to that certain user. He was still talking and all in the room as if it had no effect at all. It seems to me to be a junk command associated with /ban ViriiK 11:10, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Is it "universal" ? or server-dependent?
I want to contribute to the cleanup and expansion, but I'm not sure how to go about it. I'm not quite sure what is meant by 'uncyclopedic lists.'
For example, some modes, such as user modes g and d, vary greatly among different IRCds. Channel mode M, and perhaps R, originated with the bahamut IRCd, but I do not have a reliable citation. I believe the remark for Nefarious for user mode W is unnecessary, as it is likely a mode that originated from Unreal, and not Nefarious. Based on the frequency of change and variation of use on different IRCds, I feel the inclusion of specific modes would cause clutter.
Some commands have different behaviors depending on IRCd as well. An example, GLINE, is used to ban users from some networks based on their ident and hostname, but on others, it is used by special servers, commonly called 'ulines' or 'services' to ban users based on their GECOS data, or 'real name.'
Next, I'd like to make note that IRC commands do not include prefixes, like / or $. These are used by client software to formulate and send the commands. The actual commands are sent as alphanumeric characters. Some IRCds do behave differently based on the character casing of the commands. Is this a list of commands understood by clients, or understood as sent from clients? If the latter, msg should be changed to PRIVMSG, ctcp should be removed, etc etc etc.
To sum up my questions:
-- wshs 03:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
PASS NICK USER OPER MODE SERVICE QUIT SQUIT JOIN PART MODE TOPIC NAMES LIST INVITE KICK PRIVMSG NOTICE MOTD LUSERS VERSION STATS LINKS TIME CONNECT TRACE ADMIN INFO SERVLIST SQUERY WHO WHOIS WHOWAS KILL PING PONG ERROR AWAY REHASH DIE RESTART SUMMON USERS WALLOPS USERHOST ISON
SERVER NJOIN
--
M2Ys4U (
talk)
19:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)The name and the intro are absolutely incorrect and need to be changed (can the title even be changed?). What you are listing only has in parts to do with IRC commands - but in fact you are not talking about the protocol standard IRC but about the far-spread windows-based IRC-client mIRC. Many people do not seem to understand the difference.
The next thing is that mIRC comes with a help file (use /help <topic or command>) which provides a very detailed help.
Also the use of and the difference between aliases and variables need to be explained.
210.203.52.253 14:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Further to the discussion above in Cleanup and Wrong title!, I've decided to re-write the article using IRC commands as opposed to client-specific commands.
A copy of the old article is now at User:M2Ys4U/IRC -- M2Ys4U ( talk) 19:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
What about an article with all the extra little things that can be sent to cause something to happen. Ie especcially if you are stricly addhearing to server commands. I know of a one case where one would have to strictly stick to server commands. That case if with supybot, if one is to tell it to send a string to the server it must be done with server commands and not client program commands. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.60.34 ( talk) 05:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it just my IRC client, or do you always have to use all lowercase in the commands to make them work? If you always have to use lower case, do you think it would be a good idea to mention that in the article, or to make all the examples have lowercase. Also, mentioning that you have to put a "/" first, would help the newb's out. (like me!) Bdb4269 ( talk) 16:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Given the over-arching newb confusion about the difference between IRC and mIRC (a lot of which has been seen in the development of this very article) I think we need a page somewhere for mIRC commands (if there isn't one already, and which is basically what M2Ys4U has archived for us) and a notice on this page that there is a crucial difference between the two. Tomalak Geret'kal ( talk) 12:03, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
All I know is you say "User commands" and then below there are some "This command is used to ... It may only be sent by IRC operators."
Also you should group the commands with the most useful first... Jidanni ( talk) 19:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Where is the /clear command on the list? I've used mIRC, as well as irssi on my linux box, and it exists in both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.165.122.216 ( talk) 20:53, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
The recent {{ Prod}} has been reverted.
-- Lexein ( talk) 19:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
We've also been down this road before with AfDs for List of FTP commands and List of FTP server return codes (although I see someone has since redirected List of FTP commands). This list serves the same purposes as these and others such as List of MS-DOS commands and even List of HTTP status codes (I once did proper references for this one, [2] which then looked like this but got blindly reverted [3] by the guy who "wrote" the article for WP:OWN reasons).
I suppose I need to follow up with what I posted at WT:NOT because it looks like it rolled off into the archives with no response and as seen not only here but even at Talk:C standard library and this AfD, we are still having problems with misapplication of some of the "newer" additions to WP:NOT. While some of it might have been well-meaning when it was added, misapplication and/or misunderstanding of some of these WP:NOT entries is resulting in a lot of collateral damage within the WP:COMP scope. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 08:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Universal command? Should it be added to the list? 204.185.46.1 ( talk) 18:33, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I think those two commands are the same, or at least under UnrealIRCd. Anyway, it gets an argument (the help file's name), unlike the way it's described here. Galzigler ( talk) 22:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to get examples for each command? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.155.24 ( talk) 00:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)