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1<chapter id="Usage">
2
3<title>Usage</title>
4
5<sect1>
6<title>Connecting to the server</title>
7<para>
8Since BitlBee acts just like any other irc daemon, you can connect to
9it with your favorite irc client. Launch it and connect to localhost port 6667
10(or whatever host/port you are running bitlbee on).
11</para>
12
13</sect1>
14
15<sect1>
16<title>The &amp;bitlbee control channel</title>
17
18<para>
19Once you are connected to the BitlBee server, you are automatically joined
20to &amp;bitlbee on that server. This channel acts like the 'buddy list' you have
21on the various other chat networks.
22</para>
23
24<para>
25The user 'root' always hangs around in &amp;bitlbee and acts as your interface
26to bitlbee. All commands you give on &amp;bitlbee are 'answered' by root.
27</para>
28
29<para>
30You might be slightly confused by the &amp; in the channel name. This is,
31however, completely allowed by the IRC standards. Just try it on a regular
32IRC server, it should work. The difference between the standard #channels
33and &amp;channels is that the #channels are distributed over all the servers
34on the IRC network, while &amp;channels are local to one server. Because
35the BitlBee control channel is local to one server (and in fact, to one person),
36this name seems more suitable. Also, with this name, it's harder to confuse
37the control channel with the #bitlbee channel on OFTC.
38</para>
39
40</sect1>
41
42<sect1>
43<title>Talking to people</title>
44
45<para>
46You can talk to by starting a query with them. In most irc clients,
47this can be done with either <command>/msg &lt;nick&gt; &lt;text&gt;</command>
48or <command>/query &lt;nick&gt;</command>.
49</para>
50
51<para>
52To keep the number of open query windows limited, you can also talk to people
53in the control channel, like <command>&lt;nick&gt;: &lt;text&gt;</command>.
54</para>
55
56</sect1>
57
58</chapter>
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