LAN chat and text conferencing in easiest way with Vypress Chat

Getting started with Chat Terminal

After the Chat Terminal starts you will see a welcome message and a command prompt >. The standard Chat Terminal prompts looks like channel>. This message is an invitation to enter a command (must begin with / slash) or a message. It shows the name of the currently chatting channel. To enter a command, simply type it, and then press Enter to execute it. To send a message, type it, and then press Enter. To edit a command line, use the left and right arrow keys to position within the line, and the Backspace and Delete keys to delete characters to the left or right of the cursor, respectively. To insert text, simply type it. You can press Enter with the cursor located anywhere on the line to execute the command. You can scroll through the history of previously entered commands and messages using the up and down arrow keys. This enables you to easily re-enter a command or re-send a message, either exactly as you previously entered it or after editing.

Chat Terminal commands

First commands that should to be executed after the program starts are /list and /join. To send a message, type it, and then press Enter. To edit a command line, use the left and right arrow keys to position within the line, delete characters to the left or right of the cursor, respectively. To insert text, simply type it. You can press Enter with the cursor located anywhere on the line to execute the command. You can scroll through the history of previously entered commands and messages using the up and down arrow keys. This enables you to easily re-enter a command or re-send a message, either exactly as you previously entered it or after editing.

List of commands:

command	description
add	add a current channel topic
allchs, allchannels	list all channel names that are created in a network
allusers	list all users in a network
beep NICK	send a beep signal to a user with name NICK
cc CHANNEL	set a channel with name CHANNEL as a current channel
channels NICK	request a user with name NICK for list of joined channels
cls	clear the screen
echo on, echo off	display or don't display entered commands and messages on the standard output
exit, quit	quit the program, you can also use key sequence Ctrl+C to exit the program
flood NICK SECONDS	ban a user with name NICK for SECONDS seconds
help	display this information
here	refresh list of users of a current channel
here CHANNEL	refresh list of users of a channel with name CHANNEL
info NICK	request personal information about a user with name NICK
join	join to '#Main' channel
join CHANNEL	join to a channel with name CHANNEL
leave	leave a current channel
leave CHANNEL	leave a channel with name CHANNEL
list	list all users in a network
mass TEXT	send a mass message with TEXT
me	send an activity message to the current channel
msg NICK TEXT	send a mass message with TEXT to one user with name NICK
my	list channels which you are joined to
nick NICK	change your nick name to NICK
sjoin PASSWD CHANNEL	join to a secured channel CHANNEL with a password PASSWD
topic TOPIC	set current channel's topic to TOPIC
wait SECONDS	wait for SECONDS seconds
whoim	display detailed information about you
users	list users who are joined to the current channel

In commands where two parameters are required the first parameter must be enclosed with any symbols, for example /msg 'name' text or /sjoin /pass'\"word/ CHANNEL

Settings

All software settings are maintained by standard XML files:

• chatterm.xml - application and network settings file. An example of such file is "example_chatterm.xml'. You can modify and rename this file if necessary. Default location of chatterm.xml is a home folder of ChatTerminal;
• chatterm.user.xml - user personal settings file. An example of such file is "example_chatterm.user.xml". You should to modify and rename this file to have information about you. Default location of "chatterm.user.xml" is "%USERPROFILE%/Application Data" folder. You can run ChatTerminal by command ChatTerm -u chatterm.user.xml to read a chatterm.user.xml file from the current folder.

All elements and attributes in the XML files have clear meaning but yet we add detailed comments about all elements and attributes in example files.

Command Line parameters

You can get help about available command line switches by command ChatTerm /? or ChatTerm --help. Command line switch -dN, where N is a number between 0-15 turns on displaying debug information: 0 - nothing, 15 as much as possible, 1 - debug received messages, 2- debug received packets (packets are printed as a Hex String), 8 - debug sent packets, all other numbers are bitwise combination of mentioned values.

The syntax of ChatTerm command is:

ChatTerm [options]

Options:
/?
/help
--help	display usage text
/c {filename}	path to configuration file
/d[N]	verbose level
/i {filename}	path to initialization script file
/u {filename}	path to personal user information configuration file
/v
--version	display version info