Nick length

[Barefoot]

I have my bot parked on my own server running ConferenceRoom. I have scoured the CR docs and it says the default nick length is 10. Well, I know that isn't quite right because my nick with AFK appended on it is 11 and it's registered.

Just to be safe, I told the bot to use a nick length of 12. When I "adduser" somebody over 9 chars they are truncated to 9.

So, I figured the nick length was fixed length in the user file from when I cranked it up with the easy config. I deleted the user file. Since the bot was new anyway I just deleted the .user, .chan and started over with the nick length field set in the config.

I still have the nick length field (I think it's nick-len, but can't remember at the moment) set at 12 and it still truncates nicks to 9.

I don't plan on linking my server with any other servers or joining a network so I wouldn't mind leaving the server set to the larger nick length but I sure would like to have the bot recognize it.

Any clue?

Thanks,

-Barefoot

[Barefoot]

Ya know what? I just noticed I posted this in the TCL forum. Sorry. But then again, this is where I do most of my reading anyway and I sure get good info here.

Please accept my apologies if posting this question here was a no-no.

-Barefoot

[Petersen]

you seem to be confusing nick length with handle length. If you want to increase the handle length, you'll have to edit eggdrop.h in the src/ dir and recompile. Note that only bots with the same handlength can link to each other.

[Barefoot]

You are absolutely right. Primarily because I have yet to figger out what the difference between a nick and a handle is.

I will dig through the docs again. I thought the "handle" references in the various bot parms was a leftover from the past.

Thanks for the insight!

-Barefoot

[stdragon]

A handle is your nick on the bot, which may be different than your nick on irc.

[Barefoot]

duh...

Hey, I got it now!

Thanks,

-Barefoot