Count me in favor of defaulting to the -B behavior. On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:47:06PM -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote: > 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 >
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