If you start reading this document you should already have installed your IRC-Client and you should already be connected to the network. Information about how to set up your IRC-Client you could find on another page. You also should have read our rules.
In this document things you have to change in your IRC-Client, to type there or what it says to you are shown in an different font type.

This is a output you program give to your or something you have to type

Things which have to be changed with your own information stands between <this brackets>. Please remeber that nicknames are also shown between them. When what is meant you could see from the context.

If you connect to the server there are lots of messages, but this are not important to start.

/nickserv register <password> <email>

A short eample:

/nickserv register blablubb info@example.org

If the registration was succesfull  NickServ should respond with:

<NickServ> Nick successfully registered

Now your nick is registered, it is time to chat. But before you could do that you have to enter an channel, so you could see who is online.

The command to join an channel is::

/join <#channel>

So if you want to join the english channel type:

/join #english

This screenshot shows you how this could look like, please remember that this is an screenshot taken while using mIRC, in other IRC-Clients this could look different.<

At the right you could see all participants in the channel, here #deutsch is shown.

Now you could start talk to other chatters. Just type what you want to write to the line at the bottom of the window. If you are ready with tiping press 'Enter'.

Often there are a lot of different conersations on a channel at the same time. To make it easier for the other you should set the name of the one you want to talk to before the sentence you write
 Example:

acid-vega  hi, how are you?

Always typing the nickname is not the best solution, so the programmers of most IRC-Clients were nice to lazy people, so you only have to type the first letters of the name and then press the 'Tab'-key on your keyboard and the nick is shown full.

If you want to speak to someone but you don't want that anyone in the channel could see that you could start a 'query'. The syntax is:
/query <nickname>

Example:
/query webrat

A new subwindow shows up. There you could talk private to your chatpartner

If you don't like your nickname you change it with
/nick <yournewnick>

Example:
/nick narf

Remember that you should register a new nickname that yo want to use, please also remeber that you normally chose once a nickname and then keep it forever or for a very long period

If you don't want to chat anymore just close the program or type
/quit

If you just want to leave a channel use

/part <#channelname> [reason]

The reason is optional, because of this it is shown in this [brackets]

Problems? – Questions?

We hope, of course,  that  there are no problems, but if there should be problems you always could ask an operator for help.

[enter list of #english opers here]

Operators always could help you with problems and arguements. You could see that someone is an operator if he or she has an @ in front of the nickname. Please remember that operator are often not opped up, so you can't see the @. If this is the case please refer to the list above.

If you do not want that other could see what you are discussing with an operator use a query:

/query <name of operator>

If there is no operator you could get an list of all online operators with

/ircops

During the JOTI there are more user than during the year, so for this time there are TempOps here. This operators have their rights only during the JOTI. Their nicknames will be published before JOTI at the website.

more commands

The commands shown above are only a little part of all availlable. At this part you learn some more interesting commands.

If you want to 'whisper' something to an user, you could send a notice. In contrast to the query command there is no new window opened, the message is shown in context. The syntax is

 /notice <reciepient> <message>

Example:

 /notice wurzlbrunft  You have a very strange nickname...

 If  you  are to lazy to  open a query and then put a message in it  could also use

 /msg <reciepient> <message>

 Example:

 /msg wurzlbrunft  you nickname is still strange

If you want to know which channels are there in scoutlink just use

 /list

 With the net command you could get some info about an user

 /whois <nickname>

Eample:

 /whois sven

A possible output

* [Sven] (Sven@cs-tor.bu.edu): Sven
* [:] Sven :is using a Secure Connection
* [Sven] dk01.scoutlink.net :Denmark, Copenhagen
* [Sven] is a registered and identified nick
* [Sven] Ende der WHOIS-Liste.

This output is only an example, there could be more or less information
At the first line the 'hostmask'  is shown, the part before the '@' is known as ident. The part after it is known as host.
The second line show that the user 'Sven' is using an SSL encrypted connection.
The next line shows that the user is connected to dk01.scoutlink.net, the last line shows that the users nickname is registered and identified.

Often you want to know when a user was last online at ScoutLink, to get this info use

/whowas <nickname>

Examplel:

 /whowas webrat

A possible output:

* [webrat] (webratz@p5496BC21.dip.t-dialin.net): andi
* [webrat] de01.scoutlink.net :Mon Apr  7 20:32:04 2008

The date and time show you when the user connected the last time to the server.