alicqrc - Alicq configuration file

alicq condfiguration file is used to customize alicq during startup. Any configuration file can be specified with -config option when running alicq. If -config option is not given, default configuration file is searched depending on current platgorm:

Unix

~/.alicq/alicqrc

primary configuration

~/.alicqrc

for backward compatibility

Windows

%USERPROFILE/alicq/alicq.cfg

/alicq/alicq.cfg

where workingdir is a folder with alicq run file.

Alicq startup file is just a Tcl script, which is sourced by main program. It looks like configuration file, but it is possible to use any Tcl command in it. For example, if you want to keep ICQ password in other file, you may write something like:

source ~/.alicq/password

where ~/.alicq/password contains string

icq password mypassword

or

icq password [eval_password_by_any_way]

Common startup file usually contains following entities:

calls of module loading commands

calls of module configuration commands

resources specifications

arbitrary Tcl code user wants to evaluate in Alicq interpreter on startup

Module loading command has following syntax: module module-name

module tree

Alicq looks for modules through a list of catalogues:

basedir/modules

where basedir is a directory where current configuration file is read from.

workingdir/modules

where workingdir is a directory where alicq run file is read from.

workingdir/../share/alicq/modules

where workingdir is a directory where alicq run file is read from.

Each module can have number of configurable parameters. These parameters can be specified in configuration file using following syntax:

module-name configurable-parameter value

icq uin 47298730 icq roster use 1 tree hide empty no tree hide offline yes

List of supported configurable parameters can be retrieved with command

alicq-info [ module-name ]

$HOME/.alicq/alicqrc

Default startup file for Unix version of Alicq.

$HOME/.alicqrc

Startup file of older versions of Alicq. Used for backward compatibility.

alicq(1)

Alicq home page (http://alicq.sourceforge.net/)

Alicq was written by Ihar Viarheichyk <iverg@mail.ru>.

This manual page was written by Dmitry Borodaenko <angdraug@debian.org>, based on Alicq README and slightly reworked by Vitus Wagner <vitus@ice.ru> and Ihar Viarheichyk <iverg@mail.ru>.

This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.