Talk:List of IRC commands

Why do some of the commands start with a capital letter in the description? Is this technically accurate?

IRC is not case-sensitive. You could use /NiCk <nick>, and it would accept it. Of course, the capitalization scheme used in the article should be more consistent. --Aurochs

these commands are common but im not sure about them being universal as ive only used mirc before but

/server <server name> will connect you to a server

and /List >50 "search phrase" would list all channels with greater than 50 users and that comply with the search phrase

completeness, modes, et cetera

this list is supposed to be for "universal" irc commands, and the only way to expand this beyond like one or two more essentially universal /me and /mode-style commands is to start including ircd/services/client specific IRC commands so the list may be very incomplete in terms of being a definitive guide on commands, but considering its goal, i think that this article should be removed from the incomplete lists category.

And also, there are many modes that conflict with each other and aren't always available, so I'm not so sure about the universality of the mode list. ie RFC 2811 defined channel mode +a as an auditorium-style anonymous chat system, while unrealircd uses that to define a channel admin (+a in this case is NOT a user mode), and hybridircd uses that to make chanops anonymous. Also, there's the confusion between +l/L and +m/M, all four of which perform different tasks, but can be confused because the only difference between l and L or m and M is the capitalization. and finally, the +x currently listed as hiding hostmasks only hides hostmasks on unreal, while on hybrid it's a mode for receiving server notices. janey the crazy 19:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. There's a certain point where this article shouldn't be expanded, it's about at that point, and it doesn't need to be in that category. Oh, and +x hides the hostmasks on ircu as well. My understanding is that it's fairly common. But it's certainly not universal if some modern servers see it as something different. madewokherd 23:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

/list

is this command universal? it works on X-chat aqua and mIrc Epl18 19:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's universal. It's in rfc1459. madewokherd 17:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Spam

This IP kept changing things to "moco" or "modo": 212.81.13.193 see history. Perhaps it can be watched or locked? Epl18 21:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

IRCd command differences

Are we only listing common commands, or listing ones for specific IRC server environments? Some server modes, for example, don't work on the proprietary ChatSpace IRC server, and it also has variances on how its commands operates. I know other IRCd's have difference variances. Smeggysmeg 03:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

What does <nick!ident@host> mean i can't find it any where?