icb — Internet Citizen's Band client

icb [-eV] [-c status] [-d dir] [-i type] [-k env] [-l login] [-n nick] group

icb is a minimalistic FIFO- and filesystem-based Internet Citizen's Band (ICB) client. It creates an icb directory with subdirectory for ICB server, where subdirectries for group and nick name directories. In the leaf directories a FIFO file in and and normal file out are placed. The in file is used to communicate with the server and the out file contains the chat log. For every nick name there will be new in and out files. The basic idea of this is to be able to communicate with an ICB server with basic command line tools.

icb lacks its own networking support. It relies on UCSPI-compliant network client instead.

The following flags are available:

Following commands are interpreted specially when recieved from group FIFO:

Connect to local ICB server and enter group ‘users’, send public message followed by a private message to ‘root’:

$ tcpopen localhost icb icb users 
$ echo hello, world! > ~/icb/localhost/ 
$ echo :m root hi > ~/icb/localhost/

ii, tcpclient.

• ICB is not a well-defined protocol. Things may not work properly in all cases. Use with care.
• Due to program design and limitations of ICB protocol one icb instance can only deal with one group.