LCHAT(1)

NAME
lchat - line chat

SYNOPSIS
lchat [-aeh] [-n lines] [-p prompt] [-t title] [-i in] [-o out] [directory]

DESCRIPTION
The lchat utility is a command line front end for ii-like chat programs. It uses tail(1) in the background to get output lines from out. lchat locates the in and out files inside of the directory path.

The options are as follows:

-a  Turn off the bell on external line input.

-e  Allow to enter empty lines.

-h  Shows usage text.

-n lines
    Shows lines of chat history at startup.

-p prompt
    Use prompt as prompt for the input line.

-t title
    Use title as title for the terminal window. In a tmux(1) or screen(1) environment its change the window name instead of the window title.

-i in
    Use path of in as in-file. Default is 'in'. This overrides directory.

-o out
    Use path of out as out-file. Default is 'out'. This overrides directory.

directory
    Uses directory to search for in and out file. Default path is the current working directory.

FILES

.bellmatch
    contains regular expressions that controls bell ring on matching input.

.filter
    If this file exists and has executable permissions, it is used as a filter program for the output lines. This program should read raw lines from stdin and outputs filtered or transformed lines to stdout.

.prompt
    contains the prompt string.

.title
    contains the terminal window title.

SEE ALSO
ii(1), tail(1)

AUTHORS
-nosplit The lchat program was written by Jan Klemkow <j.klemkow@wemelug.de>.