Historically, ircII clients have loaded your startup script (~/.ircrc) after you make your first connection to the server. This has been to permit you to change usermode, join channels, create windows, etc, in your startup script, all of which you can't really do before you connect.
EPIC has the -B command line option which permits you to load your startup script at boot time, and not at connect time. If you want to do some action at connect time with the -B command line option, you use /on connect. In EPIC5, we have been scripting a great deal of functionality that used to be hardcoded into the client. Unless you use the -B command line option, these features are not available to you until you connect. This is become more of a problem. Thus, it is necessary to discuss whether the -B option should become the default (that ~/.ircrc always be loaded at boot time, rather than at connect time), and a new command line option be added to turn that off. Please share how you feel about this change. Jeremy _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
