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NAME

       centerim  -  a  text mode based IM client for Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris,
       MacOS X and possibly, other Unices. ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM TOC, IRC, MSN,
       Gadu-Gadu  and Jabber protocols are now supported. Internal LiveJournal
       client and RSS reader are also provided.

SYNOPSIS

       centerim [ option ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the centerim command.

       centerim  is  a  text  mode  menu-  and  window-driven  IM   interface.
       Currently   ICQ2000,  Yahoo!,  AIM,  IRC,  MSN,  Gadu-Gadu  and  Jabber
       protocols are supported. It allows you to send,  receive,  and  forward
       messages,  URLs,  SMSes  and,  contacts,  mass message send, search for
       users (including extended "whitepages search"),  view  users’  details,
       maintain your contact list directly from the program (including non-icq
       contacts), view the messages history, register a  new  UIN  and  update
       your  details,  be  informed on receiving email messages, automatically
       set away after the defined period of inactivity (on any  console),  and
       have  your  own  ignore,  visible  and  invisible  lists.  It  can also
       associate events with sounds, add events to  the  outgoing  queue  from
       command  line,  define  external  event processing actions (like events
       auto-forwarding or  elizatalk),  has  support  for  Hebrew  and  Arabic
       languages and allows to arrange contacts into groups.

OPTIONS

       -a, --ascii
              use ascii characters to draw lines and boxes

       -h, --help
              display command line usage

       -v, --version
              show the program version info

       -b, --basedir <directory>
              specify  another  base  directory;  useful for having several IM
              identities under the same UNIX account

       -B, --bind <hostname/ip>
              tells centerim to use the  specified  IP  address  for  outgoing
              connections

       -B, --no-xtitles
              disable title changing in xterm or screen

       -o, --offline
              start with all protocols set offline

       The  following  commands  are  used to put events to the outgoing queue
       from the command line. If centerim is already  running  they’re  to  be
       sent  immediately,  otherwise  they  will be sent as soon as you go on-
       line.

       -s, --send <event type>
              This parameter specifies the type of event  you  want  to  send.
              Currently only "msg", "url" and "sms" are supported.

       -p, --proto <protocol type>
              This  one  specifies to which IM network the destination contact
              belongs. Can be "icq", "yahoo", "aim", "irc", "jab", "msn", "gg"
              or "lj".

       -t, --to <nickname or UIN>
              With  this  one  you  specify nickname or UIN of the destination
              contact. For icq it’s possible to specify 0 to  send  events  to
              yourself.  Only  SMSes  are  known  to be possible to be sent to
              oneself though.

       -n, --number <phone number>
              Using this parameter you can send SMSes to  any  mobile  numbers
              through the ICQ network.

       The message text is read from the standard input, so use pipes in shell
       to pass it. For example, you can say "hi" to me through the ICQ network
       with the following command:

           $ echo "hi" | centerim -s msg -p icq -t 17502151

       In case you want to send an URL, the URL itself and its description are
       separated with a newline character the following way:

           $  echo  -e  "http://thekonst.net/\nMy  modest   homepage."       |
       centerim -s url -p icq -t 17502151

       Please  note,  that all three parameters are required in order to queue
       an event.

       Finally, a small example of sending SMSes:

           $ echo "sms test" | centerim -s sms -n 1234567890

       It’s also possible to change your current status  on  a  particular  IM
       network with the following command line option.

       -S, --status <status letter>
              The  argument parameter is a letter which indicates which status
              is to be set: o  (Online),  _  (Offline),  a  (Away),  d  (Don’t
              disturb),   n   (N/A),  c  (Occupied),  f  (Free  for  chat),  i
              (Invisible)

       -p or --proto <protocol name>
              Exactly the same like it was described for the previous command.

       Examples:

           $ centerim -S _ -p icq

       This  will  set  the  icq  status  to offline. In other words, it’ll be
       disconnected immediately.

           $ centerim -S a -p yahoo

       And this command will switch your yahoo status to away.

VERSION

       centerim 4.22.1

BUG REPORT

       Report any bugs at our Bugzilla site at http://bugzilla.centerim.org/

AUTHOR

       This page and centerim was originally written  by  Konstantin  Klyagin.
       Currently, several people are maintaining this software project.

WEB

       http://www.centerim.org/

                                 April 2, 2007