IRCFOSSIL(1)

NAME
ircfossil - fossil chat to IRC bridge

SYNOPSIS
ircfossil [-H number] [-c channel] url

DESCRIPTION
The ircfossil program is a bridge between a fossil chat instance, and an IRC client. The fossil chat username and password, are sent to the bridge, once connected respectively, with a NICK and PASS command, that every IRC client sends automatically if properly configured.

After a session is authenticated with the fossil chat instance at url, the client is automatically joined to a channel where incoming messages are relayed and messages posted by the client on that same channel, are sent to the fossil remote chat server.

Command line options are as follows:

-H messages
    Fetch history messages. Where messages must be a number equal or greater than 0. No history is fetched by default.

-c channel
    Alternative name for the joined channel. It must start with a pound character (‘#’). The channel is called “#chat” by default.

EXIT STATUS

EXAMPLES
Connect to the irctk fossil chat, fetch the last 20 messages and call the channel to join “#irctk”:

    $ ircfossil -H 20 -c '#irctk' https://lab.abiscuola.com/irctk

SEE ALSO
irctk(1)

AUTHORS
Andrea Biscuola a@abiscuola.com

CAVEATS
The fossil chat implementation does not have a way to tell who is online. Because of this, ircfossil simulates it by sending NAMES messages after fetching the history, or by sending a JOIN message for a user when the first message from that user is seen by the bridge.