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tell

  Usage: tell user message

"Tell" transmits your message to the user specified. The server gives you some feedback that the message has been sent. You will also be told whether the user is playing a game currently, or is not even logged on at the moment. "t" is an alias for "tell".

As a shortcut, you can use "." as an alias for "tell user" when you want to send another message to the last person you told. That way you can keep conversations going easily.

When you receive a "tell" it will appear like this: <User> tells you: <message>

The 'user' can also be a channel number in order to send a message to a group of users having that channel activated. In this case, you as sender will see the following display after sending your message: (# --> (##)) where # is the channel number and ## is the number of people on that channel that received your message.

NOTE: If you tell something to channel 4, you will only get the number of people listening to the iic-channel on your own server as a feedback.

As a shortcut, you can use "," as an alias for "tell #" and your message will be sent to the last channel you gave in a "tell" command. (Compare to "xtell" command.)

Special notes:

  1. The server remembers both the last user and the last channel you have used. "." and "," are separate aliases and do not interfere with each other.
  2. A special command, "say", can be used for communicating with an opponent during or directly following a chess game.
  3. Another special command, "message", sends a message to a user so that it can be stored for future use.
  4. You can decide whether or not to hear a "tell" from other users; setting the "tell" variable to 0 (zero) filters these from being sent to you.

See also: alias, channel, intro 2, message, say, variables, xtell


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Klaus Knopper <knopper@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>