micq(1)

NAME

mICQ - a small, text mode ICQ client

SYNOPSIS

micq  [-h]  [-c] [-i <locale>] [-b <basedir>] [-f <config_
file>] [-v[level]] [-l <logplace>]

DESCRIPTION

mICQ is a text based ICQ client supporting many of the ICQ
features provided by the client by Mirabilis. mICQ allows
to change the user password, create new accounts, updating
user info, search other users, send SMS, open direct con
nections, send acknowledged messages, transfer files,
detect other user's client, send UTF-8 encoded messages,
execute arbitrary commands upon any event, etc.

OPTIONS

-h|--help

Display a short help text and exit.

-c|--nocolor

Disable the use of color.

-i|--i18n <locale>

Use the locale locale instead of the one derived from environment variables.

-b|--basedir <basedir>

Specify basedir as the base directory where mICQ will look for its files, in particular its micqrc
file.

-f|--config <configfile>

Specify configfile as the configuration file to use.

-v|--verbose[level]

Set verbose mode, or set verbosity to level.

-l|--logplace file|dir

Use file as file to write log into, or use dir as a directory to create per user log files in.

FEATURES

mICQ is very portable and runs on Linux, DOS, OS/2, Win32,
BeOS, AmigaOS, GNU HURD and any other modern unix system.
mICQ version 0.4.10 is known to run on Linux, AIX, HPUX, Tru64, AmigaOS, partially BeOS and other unices. However,
the other ports may or may not still work and anyone wish
ing to test them is welcome to.

HISTORY

16 Aug 1998

Matthew D. Smith releases micq unto the world.
Followed by 12 dated releases until 25 Sept 1998.

05 Jan 2001

Matthew D. Smith died in a car accident. Users
pick up where Matthew left off, formalize mICQ
under the BSD license and restart the development
of mICQ.

10 June 2002

Version 0.4.9 is released under the GPL licence,
finally implementing the new version 8 of the ICQ
protocol, done by Rüdiger Kuhlmann.

MAILING-LIST

The mICQ mailing list is micq-list@micq.org. Information about subscribing and archives is available at
http://www.micq.org/pipermail/micq-list/.

DOWNLOAD

Via HTTP from http://www.micq.org/download. To get the newest version from CVS, enter:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@micq.org:/var/lib/cvs co micq

SEE ALSO

micqrc(5), micq(7)

FILES

~/.micqrc

Old configuration file for mICQ - obsolete.

~/.micq/

The default base directory where mICQ looks for its
files.

BASE/micqrc

Configuration file for mICQ.

BASE/i18n/*.i18n

Local overrides for mICQ's translation files.

BASE/contacts/

Directory where meta data for contacts is stored.

BASE/history/

Default directory for log files.

BASE/files/

Directory where incoming file transfers are saved.

BASE/remote-control

Default location of the FIFO used for remote con
trol.

PREFIX/share/micq/*.i18n

Internationalization files containing translations
of all strings mICQ outputs.

BUGS

Send bug reports or comments to Rüdiger Kuhlmann
<micq@ruediger-kuhlmann.de> (in German or English).

AUTHOR

This manual page was derived by James Morrison <ja2morri_ son@student.math.uwaterloo.ca> from the minimal man page written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

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