.TH BOBOT++ 1 "25 October 2000" "Bobot++ Version 1.97 " ""
.SH "NAME"
bobot++ \- an IRC bot.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
bobot++ [-h] [-b] [-f file] [-d dir] [-D]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.I bobot++
is a robust IRC bot with many features such as flood control,
userlist and channel control, logging, scripting.
.PP
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
.I bobot++
accepts the following options:
.TP
.PD
.BI \-h
Show help message and exit.
.TP
.PD
.BI \-b
Do not run in the background.
.TP
.PD
.BI \-f " file"
Use
.I file
as a configuration file.
.TP
.PD
.BI \-d " dir"
Use
.I dir
as the working directory.
.TP
.PD
.BI \-D
Debug mode: do not run in the background and verbose input/output printing.
.PD
.SH "CONFIGURATION FILES"
The
.I bot.conf
configuration file needs to be present in the current directory and is
the only mandatory configuration file. You can override this behaviour
with the
.BI \-f
and
.BI \-d
flags.
.PP
Other configuration files that
.I bobot++
will look for are
.I bot.users
which contains the userlist, and
.I bot.shit
which contains the shitlist.
.PP
Also,
.I bot.init
contains a list of aliases that the bot will recognize,
.I bot.help
is the customizable help file for the different bot commands,
and
.I bot.autoexec
is a Guile Scheme script that will be loaded at launch time, which you
can use to load other scripts, or create new aliases, commands and hooks.
.PP
On the Debian distribution, configuration examples can be found
in the
.I /usr/share/doc/bobot++/examples/
directory.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
bobot++ is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public Licence.
.SH "AUTHORS"
.PP
bobot++ was written by Etienne Bernard <eb@pltplp.net>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> for the Debian
GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).