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1. PROJECT RELATED QUESTIONS
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1.1 What is KVIrc ? What the "KVIrc" name stands for ?
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1.2 Why KVIrc is not totally integrated in TDE ?
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2. COMPILATION
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2.1 I can't compile kvirc from cvs, what's wrong?
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2.2 Internal Compiler Errors ?
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2.3 On Mandrake 10.0 (or other) KVIrc fails to start
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saying that it can't find libkvisetup.so.
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2.4 I got 'amarokInterface.cpp:29:31: amarokInterface.moc: No such file or directory'. Whats going wrong?
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2.5 Configure complains about a missing libdl.so but I seem to have it
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3. INSTALLATION
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3.1 There is a problem during package installation/creation
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file /usr/share/services/irc.protocol from install
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kvirc-version.package conflicts with file from package xxx
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4. IRC
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4.1 How do i join a channel ?
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4.2 How do i autojoin channels ?
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4.3 How do I enable automatic NickServ identification ?
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4.4 I can't see my national characters, what's wrong ?
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4.5 I can't connect to an IPV6 server, what's wrong ?
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4.6 /me doesn't support the '$' character, what's wrong ?
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4.7 /me doesn't support the '"' (double quote) character, what's wrong ?
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4.8 /me can't contain the ';' character, what's wrong ?
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4.9 I try to do a /whois on nick blah\ but i get the reply for blah (without the slash)
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4.10 What is AVATAR protocol ? Is there any documentation about it ?
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4.11 The log files seem to be saved randomly, when I open a log
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I can see only a part of the text that actually should be there
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4.12 The DCC transfers seem to be interrupted after the first few bytes:
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KVIrc says that the remote end has closed the connection.
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5. ADVANCED IRC FEATURES
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5.1 How do I connect to an SSL-enabled IRC server ?
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5.2 How do I use DCC over SSL ?
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5.3 Do I need a SSL certificate ?
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5.4 How do I create a SSL certificate ?
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5.5 I can't get KVIrc to use my SSL certificate in a DCC, what's wrong ?
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5.6 KVIrc crashes when a certificate is used under Windows, what's wrong ?
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5.7 How do I enable mircryption (encryption in general) for a specific channel ?
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5.8 How do I execute a process and send its output to a channel ?
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5.9 How do I keep channels and queries open after a disconnect ?
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5.10 I have an unreliable ISP connection but KVIrc takes a really long
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time to detect a disconnection and reconnect.
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5.11 I'm in a LAN and KVIrc uses a wrong IP address in dcc transfers
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6. APPAREANCE
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6.1 On Windows KVIrc seems to slow-down sometimes, what's wrong ?
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6.2 I don't see the channel popup menus anymore, what's wrong ?
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6.3 Does KVIrc support Themes?
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6.4 I hate all that colors, what can I do about it ?
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6.5 On Windows, how do I use firefox/opera/any_other_browser to open links instead of explorer ?
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7. CRASHES
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7.1 KVIrc crashes when the multiline text input is opened (obsolete)
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7.2 What the heck is a gdb stack trace and how do I get it ?
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7.3 KVIrc hangs up, but doesn't crash. How do i report debug informations ?
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7.4 KVIrc exits by itself or simply "disappears" without any apparent reason.
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7.5 KVIrc dies randomly and "Alarm Clock" is printed in the console
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7.6 KVIrc dies when using alias(identify){ identify password; }
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1. PROJECT RELATED QUESTIONS
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1.1 What is KVIrc ?
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KVIrc is a cross-platform Internet Relay Chat client.
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The name stands for K Visual Internet Relay Chat client.
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The K prefix comes from the old times, when KVIrc was bound to the
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TDE project and depended on the TDE libraries to run. Actually this
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is not true anymore since KVIrc depends only on the TQt library
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and runs also on platforms where TDE can't run.
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1.2 Why KVIrc is not totally integrated in TDE ?
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First of all read the answer for question 1.1.
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We could provide a more complete integration by the means of conditional
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compilation but since it would require additional efforts to synchronize
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the KVIrc sources with the TDE library changes we choose not to do it.
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If you wish to contribute some code that better integrates KVIrc with
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TDE you're welcome to do so: we will happily accept your patches as long
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as you promise to mantain them :)
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2. COMPILATION
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2.1 I can't compile kvirc from svn, what's wrong?
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Have you checked the requirements ?
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*Carefully* read the INSTALL file that comes with the distribution:
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it contains the informations to solve 95% of the problems that
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you may encounter. You may also try digging in our mailing list
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archive: many problems have been solved there.
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If you still can't get it to work please either subscribe to the KVIrc
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mailing list (see www.kvirc.net) and report the problem there or join #kvirc
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on IRCNet and ask the channel members for a hint.
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2.2 Internal Compiler Errors ?
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Compile errors like this:
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In file [somefile]:[someline] internal error:
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Segmentation fault
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Please submit a full bug report,
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with preprocessed source if appropriate.
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See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
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This error can have multiple reasons.
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1) A compiler bug: my GCC 3.2 20020903 (default on RH 8.0) spits
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out 5-6 of them daily. Usually it is solved by simply restarting the "make" command.
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If it doesn't go away or if it gets really frequent and annoying you might try to upgrade the compiler.
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2) A memory corruption: this is really frequent: one of your memory banks is spitting random bytes
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sometimes. Usually the problems come out under heavy system load (kernel, TDE or kvirc compilation for example).
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You can check for memory corruption by trying different RAM modules (or removing them one at a time to discover
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the broken bank). You can also try a program called memtest and a kernel
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patch that can force the broken memory banks to be ignored by the kernel (allocated permanently to a dummy kernel task).
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These tools can be found by digging the web with your favorite search engine.
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3) A deeper hardware problem: if upgrading the compiler and changing memory banks doesn't help then
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it *might* be a deeper hardware problem: bus errors , faulty IDE (or SCSI) controller or even buggy CPU...
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Well....
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2.3 On Mandrake 10.0 (or other) KVIrc fails to start
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saying that it can't find libkvisetup.so.
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Mandrake 10.0 default libtool package is broken. Either upgrade
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the libtool package or try to run ./autogen.sh --bundled-libtool
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and then recompile (./configure, make, make install).
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This *might* apply to other systems too.
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2.4 I got 'amarokInterface.cpp:29:31: amarokInterface.moc: No such file or directory'. Whats going wrong?
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You have to install tqt3 devel tools which include uic and moc. If installed, be sure that uic and moc are in PATH.
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2.5 Configure complains about a missing libdl.so but I seem to have it
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The most common causes are two:
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1) You have libdl.so.X (where X is usually a number or a set of numbers) but not libdl.so
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You need to do a symbolic link from libdl.so.X to libdl.so. You do it by entering the directory
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where libdl.so.X is and issuing a ln -s command, for example:
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# cd /lib
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# ls libdl*
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# ln -s libdl.so.2 libdl.so
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Then try to ./configure again
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2) You don't have a c++ compiler installed
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The libdl test is the first ./configure test made with a c++ compiler.
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The confirmation for this error can be found in the config.log file
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where you can find lines similar to the following:
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configure:21637: g++ -o conftest conftest.cc -rdynamic -ldl >&5
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./configure: line 1: g++: command not found
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configure:21643: $? = 127
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configure: failed program was:
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...
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Your distribution probably ships the c++ frontend to gcc in a package
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separated from gcc itself. The package might be also named g++.
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Look it up on your installation CD and install it, then ./configure again.
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3. INSTALLATION
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3.1 There is a problem during package installation/creation
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file /usr/share/services/irc.protocol from install
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kvirc-version.package conflicts with file from package xxx
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This is a known issue with all types of packages that handle
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file conflicts. KVIrc installs the irc protocol handler for TDE
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and the same is done by ksirc and kopete (and maybe others).
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There is no particular reason for KVIrc to fix it in the core
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distribution (and there is also no simple way to do it).
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Either the package maker must exclude the irc.protocol
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file from installation or mark it as "optional" in some way or the
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users must use some sort of "force" flag during the installation.
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4. IRC
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4.1 How do i join a channel ?
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Type "/join #channelname"
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4.2 How do i autojoin channels?
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There are many ways to do it.
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For example:
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Select "Scripting/Events" from the KVIrc menu.
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Lookup the "OnIrc" entry in the left pane of the window that pops up.
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Right-click on that entry and select "Add handler".
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A "default" handler will be created. In the right pane write:
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join #kvirc
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join #kde-users
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join #somechannel
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....
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Now click OK and you're done: you have just created a handler for an event.
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Reconnect to a server and KVIrc will autojoin the channels that you have selected.
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Another option (nicer, if you use several servers) is to go to the servers options
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page and click the button labeled 'Advanced' on the entry for the single server.
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There is a server-specific "On connect execute..." event.
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4.3 How do I enable automatic NickServ identification ?
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KVIrc supports two kind of NickServ identification rules: per-network and global.
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The per-network rules can be accessed from the server options page.
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You need to select a network in the list view (not a server!) and then click
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"Advanced...". In the dialog that appears there is a NickServ tab
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on that you can add your identification rules. Adding a rule
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should be straightforward (if you stop the mouse over an item you will likely get a small
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tool tip with the explaination). Each rule is composed of:
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- the nickname that is being identified: the rule will be applied only
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when your current nickname corresponds to this one.
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- a nick server user mask that must be matched by the NickServ user
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in order for him to be recognized as the real NickServ asking for
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identification. You will probably use something like NickServ!service@*
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- a message regular expression that must be matched by the message
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that the NickServ sends when requesting the identification.
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You will probably use something like "If this is your nick,
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identify yourself with /ns IDENTIFY password"
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- an identification command that will be executed when all the rules
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above match. You will probably use something like "ns IDENTIFY yourpassword"
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The global rules can be created in the IRC::NickServ page of the options dialog
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(accessible from the Settings/Configure KVIrc... menu). The main difference
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is that each rule has a server mask that must be matched by the current
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server name for the rule to be applied.
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KVIrc first looks in the per-network rules and if none matches it looks
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in the global rules.
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4.4 I can't see my national characters, what's wrong ?
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There are several ways to fix your national characters display.
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General encoding:
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Open the options dialog and go to the "Encoding" page.
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You can set explicitly the encoding to be used for the whole application.
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If you choose "Use Language Encoding" KVIrc will try to guess the
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encoding from your system settings. If this doesn't work then the reasons
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may be:
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- Your system settings are wrong
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You need to fix them
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- Your server applies some specific encoding to the data
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See "Server encoding"
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- You're chatting with people that have different system settings
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See "Channel & Query encoding"
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Server encoding
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Besides the general encoding you can set one encoding per server.
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This is done in the server options dialog (Click Advanced...).
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The encoding will be applied to all the text that comes from
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and goes to the server. If you choose "Use system encoding"
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then the server will inherit the "General encoding" value above.
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If this doesn't work then you have either set it incorrectly or
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you are chatting with people that use different encodings.
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In this case see "Channel & Query encoding"
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The server encoding is used also to decode nicknames and
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channel names on servers that support it.
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Channel & Query encoding
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Besides the general and server encoding you can set also per-window
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encoding in channels and queries. This encoding will be applied
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ONLY to the text sent to or received from that channel or query.
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This feature is useful when chatting over a non unicode aware
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IRC server (nearly all at the time of writing) with people
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that have settings different than your general defaults or
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the server default.
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Keep in mind that IRC has a MAJOR problem with character encoding
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and in fact the formal definition of the protocol requires it
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to be only 7bit safe. This means that on some servers you may
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see your national characters eaten by the IRC network and there
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is almost nothing you can do about that...
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UTF-8 is the best encoding we can get on IRC. Try to convince
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other people to use it :)
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4.5 I can't connect to an IPV6 server, what's wrong ?
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First of all make sure that your IPV6 stack is setup correctly.
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Can you ping6 other IPV6 other machines ?
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# ping6 www.6bone.net
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Is the IPV6 support enabled in your kvirc executable ?
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To find it out , try
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/echo $features
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in the KVIrc commandline. You should get a comma separated list of
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features compiled in the executable. If the list contains "IPv6" then
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the support is compiled in, otherwise you must check your compilation
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stage to guess what went wrong.
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To connect to an IPV6 server you can use /server -i <servername>
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If you can ping other IPV6 machines, the IPv6 support is compiled in your
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executable and you still can't connect to an *existing* IPv6 server then
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you may have found a bug :) Report it.
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4.6 /me doesn't support the '$' character, what's wrong ?
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This is NOT a bug : this is a feature : kvirc supports (and substitutes!) variables in all the commands.
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You can escape your $ sign by using the backslash character: /me has gained \$100 will work correctly
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4.7 /me doesn't support the '"' (double quote) character, what's wrong ?
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This is NOT a bug : this is a feature : a string enclosed in double quotes will have its whitespace preserved
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while the other strings will have the whitespace simplified. This is valid for ANY command.
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You can escape your " sign by using the backslash character: /me feels a bit \"foo\" will work correctly
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4.8 /me can't contain the ';' character, what's wrong ?
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This is NOT a bug : this is a feature : kvirc supports multiple commands on a single line and uses ';' as a command
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separator. You can escape your ';' sign by using the backslash character: /me is hungry \;) will work correctly.
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4.9 I try to do a /whois on nick blah\ but i get the reply for blah (without the slash)
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In KVIrc /whois is a scripting command and the nickname is a command parameter.
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In scripting commands the backslash is a special character with several "escape"
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meanings. To include a literal backslash inside a parameter you MUST double it,
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thus the correct command to issue is /whois blah\\
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4.10 What is AVATAR protocol? Is there any documentation about it ?
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AVATAR is a simple CTCP based protocol that allows associating images (avatars)
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to IRC users. The protocol definition is simple:
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- CTCP AVATAR QUERY:
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:<source> PRIVMSG <target> :<0x01>AVATAR<0x01>
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Queries the avatar of the <target>.
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- CTCP AVATAR REPLY:
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:<source> NOTICE <target> :<0x01>AVATAR <avatar_url><0x01>
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Asserts that the <source> user's avatar is located at <avatar_url>
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that usually will be something like http://server.domain.top/avatarimage.jpg.
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KVIrc supports also DCC based avatars that are simply "offered" to the
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remote users. In this case the <avatar_url> does not contain the http://
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prefix but is a simple file name. The remote users request the avatars
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by issuing a DCC GET command. This is an useful but secondary extension
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and can be ignored by simple implementations. If you need more informations
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about this method please write to pragma at kvirc dot net.
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4.11 The log files seem to be saved randomly, when I open a log
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I can see only a part of the text that actually should be there
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KVIrc does not explicitly flush the log files while writing them. The OS
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(or the underlying C library) does the flush operation when necessary.
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This means that blocks of the log file will be added to the file on disk
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only once in a while. If you really need to see the logs in real time
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then you can explicitly flush the log files by scripting.
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Just add a script like this to your OnKVIrcStartup event:
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timer(flushlogfiles,30000)
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{
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foreach(%x,$window.list(all,any))
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{
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if($log.file(%x))
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{
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echo -w=%x "Flushing log file...";
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log.flush -w=%x;
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}
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}
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}
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The script above will flush all the log files every 30 seconds. You may
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remove the echo statement if you're annoyed by the output :)
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4.12 The DCC transfers seem to be interrupted after the first few bytes:
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KVIrc says that the remote end has closed the connection.
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Make sure that you don't have activated the "Send ACK for byte 0"
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option in "Options->DCC->File Transfer->Advanced".
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This option should be used ONLY IF you have problems without.
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5. ADVANCED IRC FEATURES
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5.1 How do I connect to an SSL-enabled IRC server ?
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Use /server -s <servername>
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It should work also over IPV6.
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If it doesn't work then your executable might have no SSL support compiled in.
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To find it out type
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/echo $features
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in the KVIrc commandline. If "SSL" is not in the list then you must go back
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to the compilation phase and see what went wrong.
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5.1 How do I use DCC over SSL ?
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/dcc.chat -s <nickname> should work
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5.3 Do I need a SSL certificate ?
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No you shouldn't need it, but you can use it if you want.
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5.4 How do I create a SSL certificate ?
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A test self-signed certificate can be created by using the CA.pl perl script included
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in the OpenSSL distribution. It will be something like CA.pl -newcert
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5.5 I can't get KVIrc to use my SSL certificate in a DCC, what's wrong ?
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The SSL protocol doesn't require the "client" to send the certificate: it is
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sent only if the "server side" requests it (it is not the KVIrc case).
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The server side may have a certificate and you can set it in the SSL options page.
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If your Private Key is stored in the certificate file pass the same filename
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to both Certificate and PrivateKey option.
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Remember to set the password if needed.
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5.6 KVIrc crashes when a certificate is used under Windows, what's wrong ?
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This is probably a bug of the SSL dll shipped with the windows version of KVIrc.
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You might try with a different version of this dll.
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5.7 Can I encrypt my messages?
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(or: How do I enable mircryption (encryption in general) for a specific channel?)
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KVIrc supports encryption for channels, queries and dcc chats by the means
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of text transformation engines. You can access the list of the engines
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by clicking the button with the yellow lock in the upper right corner
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of the window. In the pane that will appear select "use text transformation"
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and then choose one of the available engines.
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The Mircryption engine is an implementation of the mircryption protocol and
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supports both ECB and CBC mode. There is also a wide variety of Rijndael based encryption
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engies as well as some funky other text transform tricks.
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Most of the engines will need a pair of keys to encrypt and decrypt text
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and in most cases you will use the same key for both encrypting and
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decrypting. In the particular case of Mircryption you can enable
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CBC mode by prefixing your key(s) with the "cbc:" string.
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Once you have entered the keys just click on OK and start "talking" in the
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window. Any encrypted text will have a "lock" overlay in his icon.
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If you want to avoid encrypting a particular text line (maybe because
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you want to allow everyone on a channel to read it) you can start
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the line with a CTRL+P character.
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5.8 How do I execute a process and send its output to a channel ?
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The straight way to do this is
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/exec("your command here"){ say $1; }
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Since it is not too much "user friendly", you can alias it in
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the following way:
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alias(runandsay)
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{
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exec($0-){ say $1; }
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}
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Then you would simply run
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/runandsay cat /proc/cpuinfo
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in the channel window you want the output sent to.
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Keep in mind that this is a "brute" approach and I'm sure that after
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reading some documentation (start from /help exec) you will be able to
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find more elaborate and nice ways to send a process output to a channel/query.
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5.9 How do I keep channels and queries open after a disconnect ?
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KVIrc can keep your channels and queries open when the connection terminates
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unexpectedly. This will probably make sense only if you plan to
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reconnect to the same server or at least the same network (either manually
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or automatically).
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An "unexpected disconnect" is a connection termination not explicitly caused by
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the KVIrc user. This means that the connection is interrupted, either
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by the networking stack or by the remote server, without the user
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having sent a QUIT message (by the means of the /quit command or by pressing
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the "disconnect" button in the toolbar).
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All this because the normal behaviour of a /QUIT command is, yes, to quit
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your current connection without leaving traces of it.
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To keep the channels and queries open you just need to select the
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relative options in the "Connection" page of the options dialog
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(on unexpected disconnect: "Keep channels open" an/or "Keep queries open").
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Then you might also select "Automatically reconnect", "Rejoin channels
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after reconnect" and "Reopen queries after reconnect" to bring your
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"dead windows" to life again :)
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Finally, you can simulate an "unexpected disconnection" by using the -u switch
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of the /quit command. This might be useful when you want to explicitly
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quit your connection while leaving the channels and queries open... maybe
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because you need to renew the connection to your ISP before reconnecting ;)
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5.10 I have an unreliable ISP connection but KVIrc takes a really long
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time to detect a disconnection and reconnect.
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KVIrc doesn't detect itself that the connection has dropped until your
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kernel explicitly times out. KVIrc measures lag, instead, that will
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probably grow up a lot when the connection has dropped.
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You can write a handler for the OnLagCheck event that will detect
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the lag growing over a certain threshold and reconnect.
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This involves opening the event editor, selecting OnLagCheck
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and choosing "Add handler" from the right mouse menu.
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In the handler write:
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if($1 > 30000){ quit -f -u; }
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30000 is just a sample threshold (it means 30000 milliseconds!), replace
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it with a value of your choice.
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quit -f -u will close the current connection immediately (-f = force)
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and will simulate an "unexpected disconnection" condition (-u = unexpected).
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If you then enable automatic reconnection (see answer for question 5.9)
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in the options dialog, KVIrc will automatically reconnect and rejoin channels.
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5.11 I'm in a LAN and KVIrc uses a wrong IP address in dcc transfers
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KVIrc supports a couple of methods for guessing the right IP address for
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DCC transfers: you only have to guide it a bit :)
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The first thing to try is "Guess address from IRC when unroutable" (Options->DCC).
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This will perform a lookup on your own IRC mask once you connect
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to an IRC server and use the address as source in DCC transfers.
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(You need to reconnect to the server to make this option work!)
|
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This trick will fail when your hostmask is cloaked (mode +x on recent IRC servers):
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KVIrc will tell you that it couldn't look up the hostname and give up.
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In this case you might try to set a fixed address to be sent as source
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in the DCC transfers: you just need to fill in the *IP address* of your
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router in the option field. This field doesn't support hostname lookups
|
|
and it won't update automatically when you router's IP changes.
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However, if you router's IP has a dns entry, you can ask KVIrc to fill
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|
this field with a simple script to be performed at every connection.
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|
event(OnIRCConnectionEstabilished,updatedccsource)
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|
{
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ahost(yourrouterhostname.dyndns.org)
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{
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option boolDCCSendFakeAddressByDefault 1
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if($1)option stringDefaultDCCFakeAddress $2
|
|
else echo "Couldn't look up the router's hostname"
|
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}
|
|
}
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|
|
|
When transferring files to other KVIrc clients you may also try the
|
|
DCC RSEND protocol instead of DCC SEND. It will ask the remote end
|
|
to listen instead.
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|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
6. APPAREANCE
|
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
6.1 On Windows KVIrc seems to slow-down sometimes, what's wrong ?
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|
|
|
This is usually caused by the heavy graphics: try removing some graphic effects like the
|
|
pseudo-transparency. I have experimented that it happens almost always on 32-bit displays.
|
|
Switching to 16 or 24 bits may also help.
|
|
|
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|
|
6.2 I don't see the channel popup menus anymore, what's wrong ?
|
|
|
|
If something went wrong with KVIrc settings (a crash when the script settings
|
|
were saved ?) or if you have messed with the scripting options and you
|
|
want to get back the original behaviour (default script) you can choose
|
|
"Scripting/Restore default script" from the KVIrc menu.
|
|
(WARNING: It will erase any script modification you have made!)
|
|
Update: starting with the cvs of 2005.01.17, KVIrc should be able to
|
|
detect such situations and automatically suggest the re-installation of the
|
|
default script.
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|
|
|
6.3 Does KVIrc support Themes?
|
|
|
|
Yes, KVIrc now has introduced a Theme Manager. You can find it in the Option dialog.
|
|
From there you can change the way KVIrc looks: fonts, colors, windows behaviour,
|
|
icons, taskbars, and so on.
|
|
Once you have changed the theme, you can save it, archive it (tar.bz2 or zip) and share with your friends,
|
|
or send it to the KVIrc staff to see it published on the web site.
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.4 I hate all that colors, what can I do about it ?
|
|
|
|
By fiddling with the options you can make KVIrc appear even monochromatic.
|
|
Go to Options/Theme and select the minimalist theme: it will set white text
|
|
on black background and will disable the displaying of a lot of icons.
|
|
This is a good starting point for you console addicted hackerz :D
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|
|
|
|
|
6.5 On Windows, how do I use firefox/opera/any_other_browser to open links instead of explorer ?
|
|
|
|
Go to the "URL Handlers" options page and set
|
|
|
|
run "C:\\path\\to\\your\\browser.exe" "$0"
|
|
|
|
as url handler for the protocol you're interested in (maybe in all).
|
|
|
|
Suepahfly suggests to use
|
|
|
|
rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "$0"
|
|
|
|
as url handler to open the url in the default windows browser.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
7. CRASH
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
7.1 KVIrc crashes when the multiline text input is opened (obsolete)
|
|
|
|
If you have installed a new version of KVIrc over a previous installation
|
|
br if you have changed the TQt libraries that KVIrc is linked to then
|
|
it might be caused by a broken multiline text editor config.
|
|
Try removing $HOME/.kvircssexeditorrc and starting KVIrc again.
|
|
Update: this problem has been completely removed during late 2004 developments
|
|
by completely rewriting the multiline input.
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.2 What the heck is a gdb stack trace and how do I get it ?
|
|
|
|
A gdb stack trace is a "photography" of the state of the KVIrc internals
|
|
taken when a certain event has occured. The most common event
|
|
is a program crash (Segmentation Fault).
|
|
The stack trace helps (or even allows) the developers to locate the
|
|
crash cause in the program sources.
|
|
To obtain a gdb stack trace you must:
|
|
|
|
- Compile KVIrc with the --enable-debug ./configure option.
|
|
Without this switch the stack trace is USELESS.
|
|
- Have a working installation of gdb (the gnu debugger)
|
|
This is usually available on your distribution cd
|
|
and you may already have it installed.
|
|
- Run KVirc:
|
|
# gdb kvirc
|
|
When the gdb prompt appears write:
|
|
# (gdb) run -f
|
|
Make KVIrc crash: gdb will tell something about
|
|
a signal received by the program. Write then:
|
|
# (gdb) bt
|
|
The text you see is the stack trace you wanted :)
|
|
Copy+Paste+Send it to pragma at kvirc dot net or the mailing list.
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.3 KVIrc hangs up, but doesn't crash. How do i report debug informations ?
|
|
|
|
Use gdb to get a stack trace as in answer to question 7.2.
|
|
Since your KVIrc doesn't crash you will have to interrupt the execution
|
|
manually while it is hung up. You can do it by pressing CTRL+C in gdb.
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.4 KVIrc exits by itself or simply "disappears" without any apparent reason.
|
|
|
|
Yes. It probably crashed but you haven't noticed that.
|
|
We NEED a gdb stack trace or a working procedure to reproduce the
|
|
behaviour in order to hunt it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.5 KVIrc dies randomly and "Alarm Clock" is printed in the console
|
|
|
|
Try recompiling kvirc by adding the --with-ignore-sigalarm switch to
|
|
./configure. (Note: the reason of the incoming SIGALARM signals
|
|
on certain systems is acually unknown. Please send hints to pragma at kvirc dot net).
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.6 KVIrc dies when using alias(identify){ identify password; };
|
|
|
|
This is infinite recursion: a programming error.
|
|
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_loop , learn
|
|
that once for all and fix your script.
|
|
|