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<title>Infobot Guide 0.44.3</title>
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<h1>Infobot Guide 0.44.3</h1>
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<hr>
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The canonical source for the infobot source and documentation is
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<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~infobot">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~infobot</a>.
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<hr>
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<p>
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The infobot connects to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server,
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joins some channels (maybe), and begins accumulating factoids.
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To run one, download the source, uncompress it, untar it,
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edit the config files, and it up.
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<p>
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Interacting with the bot is pretty straightforward. Most of
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the commands and variables available to users are listed below.
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The bot will interact via message or on-channel.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h2> Interacting with an infobot</h2>
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<UL>
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<LI> <b>setting</b> factoids: X is Y
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<p>
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Saying something like "X is Y" somewhere that the infobot
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can see it will cause the bot to store a factoid, unless
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X is already defined. It sets the value of X to Y.
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<p>
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<LI> <b>accessing</b> factoids: What is X?
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<p>
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You can ask an infobot about something in a number of
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different ways, including "what is X?", "where is X?",
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or just plain "X?".
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</p>
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<LI> <b>altering</b> factoids: s/A/B/
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<p>
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if you just want to change a <i>part</i> of a factoid, use
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the <code>s///</code>operator. you have to address the bot
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or use a private medium to do this.
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<p>
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MyBot, X =~ s/A/B/
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<p>
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will change the first occurence of A to B in the factoid
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called X.
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<p>
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<LI>appending to existing entries: <b><code>also</code></b>
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<p>
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One can extend an existing factoid using the
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keyword <code>also</code>
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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poink is also a silly word
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI>erasing a factoid: <b><code>forget</code></b>
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<p>
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A factoid can easily be deleted by using
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<p>
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<DIR>
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<code>
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infobot, forget poink
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</code>
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</DIR>
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<p>
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<LI>changing a factoid: <code><b>no,</b> ...</code>
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<p>
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You can change the entry for a factoid completely using
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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no, infobot, x is wugga wugga.
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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which deletes the prior entry (if possible)
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and replaces it with the new one.
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<p>
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<LI> having the bot tell someone else something: <b><code>tell</code></b>
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<p>
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A user can ask an infobot to tell someone else something.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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infobot, tell fimmtiu about no web
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</code>
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<p>
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</UL>
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<LI><b>karma</b> / plusplus
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<p>
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karma for a concept may be incremented or decremeted using
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<code>++</code> and <code>--</code>. You can get the
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current karma 'score' for something by asking for it.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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oznoid++
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<p>
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oznoid--
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<p>
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karma for oznoid
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</code>
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<p>
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</UL>
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<LI> <code><b>status</b></code>
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<p>
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infobots reply to status requests.
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<p>
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<dir>
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-> [url] status<p>
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[url!infobot@ALF5.SPEECH.CS.CMU.EDU] Since Fri Mar 26 06:42:27 1999, there have been 409
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modifications and 2604 questions. I have been awake for 5 days, 4 hours, 24 minutes,
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18 seconds this session, and currently reference 47529 factoids.
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</dir>
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</p>
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<LI>joining an allowed channel: <code><b>join</b> #infobot</code>
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<p>
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On IRC, you can tell the infobot to join a channel
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that it's allowed to join with
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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infobot, join #infobot
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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If it is allowed to (in its paramter settings), it
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will try to join the channel.
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<p>
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<LI>leaving a channel: <code><b>part</b> #infobot</code>
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<p>
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This causes the bot to leave the given channel
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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infobot, part #infobot
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<code>leave</code> is a synonym for <code>part</code>.
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<p>
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<LI><b>random</b> responses with <code>|</code>
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<p>
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You can set a list from which to pick a random response by
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using <code>|</code>
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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x is a|b|c|d
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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When x is asked about, the infobot will randomly choose from
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the <code>|</code>-spearated list.
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<p>
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<LI> The <b><code><reply></code></b> factoid tag.
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<p>
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Normally, when the infobot replies to "What is X", it says
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"X is Y". This form makes it just reply "Y".
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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X is <reply> Y
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI> The <b><code><action></code></b> factoid tag (as of 0.43.5)
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<p>
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This causes the bot to respond as with <reply> except
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as an ACTION.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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X is <action> Y
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI><b>backwacking</b>
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<p>
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Use <code>\</code> to protect items from evaluation.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<CODE>
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x is y is y
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</CODE>
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</UL>
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<p>
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will normally set <code>x =is=> y is y</code>, but
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<p>
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<UL>
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<CODE>
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x \is y is y
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</CODE>
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</UL>
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<p>
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will set
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>x is y =is=> y</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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The <code>forget</code>
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and <code>no</code> (update) operators apply before checking
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for this. This is also useful for getting around the
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dereferencing of "i" and "me" and so on.
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<p>
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<LI>the <b><code>$who</code></b> variable
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<p>
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Contains the nickname person currently addressing the bot.
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It can be used effectively in replies.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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nice day is <reply> you betcha, $who.
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI>the <b><code>$date</code></b> variable
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<p>
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Contains the current date and time, at the bot's host.
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<p>
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<LI> <code><b>weather</b> for KAGC</code> (0.43.6+)
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<p>
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Retrieves the weather from NOAA station KAGC. See www.noaa.gov.
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Note: Requires LWP.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<LI> <code><b>metar</b> KAGC</code> (0.43.6+)
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</UL>
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<p>
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Retrieves METAR info from NOAA station KAGC. See www.noaa.gov.
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Note: Requires Geo::METAR and LWP.
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<p>
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<LI> <code><b>nslookup</b> irc.cs.cmu.edu</code>
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<p>
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performs DNS lookup or reverse-lookup on the hostname or IP.
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<p>
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<LI><code><b>internic</b> yahoo.com</code>
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<p>
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gets the internic WHOIS record
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<p>
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<LI><code><b>traceroute</b> apple.com</code>
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<p>
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gets the traceroute results from the bot's machine to the target machine. Summary only.
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<p>
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<LI><b>imdb, websters, foldoc</b>
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<p>
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outputs a well-formed url for a search of IMDB (the Internet Movie DataBase), the Webster's 1913 dictionary, or the foldoc dictionary of geek terms.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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imdb for clerks<p>
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webster for lucre
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI> New in 0.44.3:
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<p>
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<UL>
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<LI> <code><b>literal</b> foo</code>
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<p>
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returns the value without the usual post-processing.
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</p>
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<LI> <code><b>change</b> 100 USD to DEM</code>
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<p>
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converts currency. Retrieves the current exchange rates from the net.
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Requires LWP.
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</p>
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<LI> <code><rss="http://www.foo.com/summary.rss"></code>
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<p>
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looks up the RSS file (RDF Site Summary) and returns it
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in-place where the tag is. Requires XML::RSS and LWP.
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</p>
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<LI> <code>give me an excuse</code>, or <code>excuse</code>
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<p>
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connects to the excuse server and returns an excuse.
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requires Net::Telnet.
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</p>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI>Ignoring users: <b>ignore</b> nickname, <b>ignore *.a.com</b>
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<p>
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Users with the P (oP) flag can tell the bot
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to ignore people or hostmasks. And 'unignore'.
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use 'ignorelist' to get the current list of ignored masks,
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if you have the P flag.
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</p>
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<LI><code><b>op</b></code> on channel
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<p>
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The 'p' (oP) flag in the userfile allows this
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to work. You'll need to set a hostmask. See
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<code>files/infobot.users</code> Also uses a
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crypted password.
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<p>
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<dir>
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<code>
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/msg <bot> <password> op
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</code>
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</dir>
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<p>
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<LI><b><code>die</code></b>
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<p>
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If the bot owner (+O, Owner) says this or messages it to the bot,
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it will kill itself.
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<p>
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</UL>
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<hr>
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<h2> scripts/utilities </h2>
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The infobot comes with some scripts for working with
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the DBM files.
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<p>
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<LI><code>update_db</code>
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<p>
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This takes a flat ascii file and inserts it into a DBM file.
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It creates a new DBM if it didn't exist.
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<p>
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<CODE>
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scripts/update_db factpacks/code_to_country.txt infobot-is
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</CODE>
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</UL>
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<p>
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will add the factoids in <code>code_to_country.txt</code>
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to the <code>infobot-is</code> DBM.
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<p>
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If you've set <code>DBMModule</code> in your config file, you
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need to use the <code>-m</code> switch to specify the alternate
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module.
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<p>
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<CODE>
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scripts/update_db -d DB_File factpacks/code_to_country.txt infobot-is
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</CODE>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI><code>dump_db</code>
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The converse. It dumps out the DBM file to a flat
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ascii file. Note there is no extension on the DBM name,
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even though the system may use one.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<CODE>
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scripts/dump_db infobot-is
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</CODE>
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</UL>
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<p>
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Note there is no extension on the DBM name, even though the
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system may use one (like <code>.pag</code> and
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<code>.dir</code> or <code>.db</code>).
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<p>
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If you've set <code>DBMModule</code> in your config file, you
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need to use the <code>-m</code> switch to specify the alternate
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module.
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<p>
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<UL>
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<CODE>
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scripts/dump_db -m DB_File infobot-is
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</CODE>
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</UL>
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<p>
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</UL>
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<hr>
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<h3> add-on modules </h3>
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<UL>
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<LI> <code>nickometer</code>, by Adam Spiers. Guages
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how 'lame' a nickname is, as a percentage!<p>
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<UL>
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<code>
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nickometer l33tn1ck
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</code>
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</UL>
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<p>
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<LI> <code>babel.pl</code> by jdf. translates using the
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<a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">babelfish</a>
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web site for machine translation.
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In this implementation, English is assumed
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to be the 'main' language, thus everything is
|
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translated <code>to</code> or <code>from</code> another
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language.
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<p>
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|
<UL>
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<code>
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|
(x|translate) (to|from) (de|fr|pt|es|it|german|french|portugese|spanish|italian)
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<p>
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|
translate to german this is a test<br>
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|
x to german this is another test<br>
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x to de and a third<br>
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|
x from de ein bisschen Deutsch<p>
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German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese are
|
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|
|
currently supported by babelfish.
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||
|
|
</code>
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||
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|
</UL>
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||
|
|
<p>
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|
<LI> <code>METAR</code> support, courtesy of mendel<p>
|
||
|
|
<code>metar KAGC</code>
|
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|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
retrieves METAR information for KAGC, the Allegheny
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|
|
County airport station.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<LI> <code>NOAA</code> weather station support, courtesy of oznoid<p>
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<code>weather KAGC</code>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
retrieves the
|
||
|
|
<a href="http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/curcond.html">NOAA</a>
|
||
|
|
weather information from (in this example) KAGC. uses the
|
||
|
|
same
|
||
|
|
<a href="http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/curcond.html">codes</a>
|
||
|
|
as metar info.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<LI> <code>slashdot</code> headlines, originally from Chris Tessone,
|
||
|
|
current version from Rahga.<p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<code>slashdot</code><br>
|
||
|
|
<code>slashdot headlines</code>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
retrieves the current slashdot headlines from
|
||
|
|
<a href="http://www.slashdot.org">www.slashdot.org</a>.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<LI> W3Search: search web engines for links; thanks
|
||
|
|
to Simon Couzins for this one. Requires
|
||
|
|
WWW::Search and WWW::Search::Google.
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<code>search google for foo</code><br>
|
||
|
|
<code>google for foo</code><br>
|
||
|
|
<code>altavista for foo</code><br>
|
||
|
|
<code>dejanews for foo</code>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
Currently supports what WWW::Search and WWW::Search::Google
|
||
|
|
support, namely: Dejanews, Google, Gopher, Excite, Infoseek,
|
||
|
|
HotBot, Lycos, AltaVista, Magellan, PLweb, SFgate, and Verity.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<LI>US Airways In-flight info.
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<code>usair flight 781</code>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
retrieves the in-flight information for the
|
||
|
|
appropriate USAir flight. Note: Requires LWP.
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<hr>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2> setting up </h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3> configuration </h3>
|
||
|
|
<UL>
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b> editing the parameter file </b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The parameter file, usually in <code>files/infobot.config</code>,
|
||
|
|
is the most direct way to customize the settings on your infobot.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b>editing the user file</b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The user file, usually in <code>files/infobot.users</code>,
|
||
|
|
is the most direct way to customize the settings on your infobot.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b> editing the main script </b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
There are certain items you may need to fiddle with
|
||
|
|
in the main script of the infobot, but normally you
|
||
|
|
shouldn't have to. The usual reasons are
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<UL>
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b> changing the bang path to perl </b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
If you get
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<UL>
|
||
|
|
<code>
|
||
|
|
infobot: Command not found.
|
||
|
|
</code>
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
or something like it, you need to edit the infobot
|
||
|
|
script at the top level directory (the script named
|
||
|
|
'infobot') and set the path to you perl interpreter
|
||
|
|
in the very first line of the script to
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<UL>
|
||
|
|
<code>
|
||
|
|
#!/path/to/perl
|
||
|
|
</code>
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
with, of course, the full path to your perl binary.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b> explicitly setting normally relative paths </b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
If you don't have . in your path, you will probably
|
||
|
|
need to set some variables explicitly that are normally
|
||
|
|
determined relative to the infobot script. This is
|
||
|
|
done in the 'infobot' script.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b>Installing Modules to enable features</b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
Several add-ons, like <code>weather</code> and
|
||
|
|
web <code>search</code> require perl modules to
|
||
|
|
be installed. The easiest way to get all the
|
||
|
|
things you need is to install the CPAN.pm module,
|
||
|
|
available from <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules-by-module/CPAN/">CPAN</a>, and use it to install what you need. This
|
||
|
|
is best done as root.<p>
|
||
|
|
Once you have the CPAN module installed, use
|
||
|
|
it to install the required modules:
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>the main thing: <code>install Bundle::LWP</code>
|
||
|
|
<li>for METAR: <code>install Geo::METAR</code>
|
||
|
|
<li>for W3Search:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><code>install WWW::Search</code>
|
||
|
|
<li><code>install WWW::Search::Google</code>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
Once these are installed, start or restart your infobot.
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
<hr>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3> running the infobot </h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<UL>
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b>starting it up</b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
This should be as simple as entering the infobot
|
||
|
|
parent directory and executing
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<UL>
|
||
|
|
<code>
|
||
|
|
infobot
|
||
|
|
</code>
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
This starts up the script and generates a whole lot of text.
|
||
|
|
It's useful and interesting to see what's going on "in the
|
||
|
|
infobot's head". You can control the amount of verbage
|
||
|
|
that comes out with the <code>VERBOSITY</code> parameter,
|
||
|
|
of you can dump all the output to the bitbucket and background
|
||
|
|
the process at the same time with
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<UL>
|
||
|
|
<code>
|
||
|
|
nohup infobot > /dev/null &
|
||
|
|
</code>
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b>the console</b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
Should you choose to look at the stream if consciousness
|
||
|
|
in the bot, and you haven't reduced the output to nothing
|
||
|
|
or consigned it to the void, you will be presented with
|
||
|
|
the <b>console</b>.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
The first thing you should see, assuming all goes well with
|
||
|
|
making a connection, is the <b>motd</b> (message-of-the-day)
|
||
|
|
of the server the bot has been configured to connect to.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
Next, you should see the result of the channel joins specified
|
||
|
|
in the parameter files, and you may see the bot recognizing
|
||
|
|
hostmasks of people in the userfile, if any have been put
|
||
|
|
in there.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
If you have the <code>ansi_control</code> paramter set,
|
||
|
|
and your terminal supports it, the output will be in color.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
NOTE that the 'console' is NOT interactive. You can't
|
||
|
|
type anything into it; it's just for viewing what's going on.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<LI> <b><code>cron</code>ning the infobot</b>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
You can set the infobot to automatically start up using
|
||
|
|
<code>cron</code>. See the included example <code>crontab</code>
|
||
|
|
file, in <code>files/infobot.crontab</code>
|
||
|
|
</UL>
|
||
|
|
<hr>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3> shutting it down </h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
If you have set yourself as the bot's master in the user file
|
||
|
|
(<code>infobot.users</code>, unless you changed the default),
|
||
|
|
you can just say or message 'die' to the bot.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
Otherwise, kill the process or hit control-c in the console.
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<hr>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2> the FAQ </h2>
|
||
|
|
The FAQ is available at
|
||
|
|
<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~infobot/faq/">
|
||
|
|
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~infobot/faq/</a>. It is growing. Slowly.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<hr>
|
||
|
|
<address><a href="mailto:infobot@protected.speech.cs.cmu.edu">infobot@protected.speech.cs.cmu.edu</a></address>
|
||
|
|
<!-- Created: Sat Aug 15 12:00:57 EDT 1998 -->
|
||
|
|
<!-- hhmts start -->
|
||
|
|
Last modified: Tue Oct 26 14:24:41 EDT 1999
|
||
|
|
<!-- hhmts end -->
|
||
|
|
</body>
|
||
|
|
</html>
|