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- Synopsis:
- load oldping
-
- Description:
- This is a script version of the now-ubiquitous CTCP PING command. It is
- necessary when dealing with other clients that are particularly old, or
- that do not otherwise support CTCP PING (but do support other CTCP
- commands). It works by sending the ping message in a CTCP ERRMSG, which
- most clients will reply to. It otherwise works just like PING, except
- the command is /oping.
-
- See Also:
- ctcp(1); load(5); ping(1)
-
- Other Notes:
- This script has been contributed to by numerous people. Credit for the
- original idea goes to Robey Pointer (Robey), robey@netcom.com, with some
- inspiration from Klaus Zeuge (sojge), sojge@minsk.docs.uu.se, and
- Nicolas Pioch (Nap), pioch@poly.polytecnique.fr. Some credit also goes
- to Peter Hellmonds (snoopy), hellmond@phoenix.princeton.edu. Ian
- Frechette (Daemon), frechett@spot.colorado.edu, made the necessary
- modifications for it to run under ircII 2.2pre6. Further modifications
- have been made by Jeremy Nelson (hop), jnelson@acronet.net, for EPIC.
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