# $EPIC: 3_Operators,v 1.6 2002/10/02 03:42:09 kitambi Exp $
Section 3: IRC Operator Commands                                            

This section includes commands only available to irc operators.  While it
is probably worth a look, it will be of little practical use to anyone who
isn't an irc operator.

It is worth noting that more commands than these are probably available to
IRC Operators on most servers. It is strongly recomended that IRC operators
ask their server administrator what extended commands are availible to them.
Server-specific extensions for IRC Operators are typically NOT added to EPIC 
because of lack of standardization in these commands, and because they are 
useful to only a small percentage of EPIC users. Commands which aren't 
recognized by EPIC may be sent in several ways:

quote(5) can be used to send almost any command to the server, without
processing by the client.

set(4) dispatch_unknown_commands can be toggled on to cause any command
not recognized by EPIC to be passed along to the server as-is.

alias(5) may be used to create aliases to frequently used commands, so
that you don't have to keep typing quote(5).

In the future, scripts which provide aliases for server-specific extensions
will probably be provided, rather than coding those into the client.

 
