.TH TUBES 1 tubes-1.2.1
.SH NAME
tubes \- irc pipes
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tubes
.RB [ \-S ]
.RB [ \-s
.IR server ]
.RB [ \-p
.IR port ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B tubes
is a small daemon that provides a minimalistic interface for irc bots.
Messages to and from the server are represented by two FIFO buffers in /tmp.
For the default server (freenode) these would be chat.freenode.net.in and
chat.freenode.net.out for incoming and outgoing messages respectively.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-S
Use SSL (changes port to 6697)
.TP
.BI \-s " server"
Use a host other than the default (chat.freenode.net)
.TP
.BI \-p " port"
Use a port other than the default (6667) - this option should be specified
after
.B \-S
if SSL is also desired

.SH FILES
The incoming and outgoing FIFO buffers are stored in /tmp and are named for
the server tubes is connected to with .in or .out appended to the end.
~/.tubes.err is used to store an error string if tubes exits with -1.
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns -1 on error, 0 on success.
.SH AUTHOR
Copyright \(co 2016 Thomas Mannay <audiobarrier@openmailbox.org>.