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Thanks for the explanation of the hostmask. I think I'm OK for now, but I will fiddle with it a bit later. I have much to learn. Setting the language worked! I had seen that in the TCL but didn't understand. I think I see how it works now. The script has access to the channel variables directly. Eve...

An asterisk means your bot does not recognizes you. Thus you need to add proper "hostmasks" to your handle (useraccount), so that your bot may know how to identify you. Use the .addhost or .+host for this, see .help addhost and .help +host for detailed info. I see however, that you added ...

Like nml375 suggested, you need to set the channel config +8ball. Type in the bot: ".chanset #yourchannel +8ball" That should getcha off and running. :) Funny thing, I woke up in the middle of the night suddenly thinking that's what nml375 meant in his post. D'oh! Thanks! Sadly, it still ...

Howdy! I'll give you a few commands for you to use. While in the channel and using the nickname the bot knows you by, type within the bot: '.adduser yournickname' and it should add your user@host to the bot. If you want to see what the command triggers are for the tcl scripts you have loaded, in th...

Part1: Could you verify, using the .channel command, that your eggdrop recognizes you on the channel? (.channel lists what your eggdrop "sees" in the channel, and also shows who he thinks everybody is, shown under the column "handle"). This command shows everybody. The handle co...

I'm an old noob, and learning new things is difficult. This is new. I installed Eggdrop 1.6.19 using a script supplied by my ISP (sh3lls). They supplied a simplified .conf file which I edited for my installation. Eggdrop works. I can access it over Telnet. I added my channel, and MyBot joins just fi...