WHOBBS(1)

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💖 WHOBBS(1) — bestie's guide to whobbs 💖

okay so welcome to WHOBBS(1), a little Citadel.org situation, and honestly? it's giving "tiny utility, huge heart." sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

WhoBBS — the who-is-online listing utility. that's it, that's the whole job. it looks at your citadel server and tells you who's hanging out in there. main character energy from a program that literally just lists people.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

whobbs [remotehost [remoteport]]

look at her. two optional args, zero drama. iconic.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe, bestie: WhoBBS connects to the given citserver, retrieves the list of users currently online in the system, and prints it nicely formated. that's it! that's the plot! 🫶

no cap, it's the simplest little glow-up you can do to a terminal. you run it, you see who's around. obsessed.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so there's a line in the original page that just says SwitchResult and honestly bestie, we don't know what it's doing there either. we are leaving it exactly where we found it. it lives there now. she's part of the family. 🎀

SwitchResult

  • remotehost — if the citserver lives on another box, this is its name / ip. if not, then this is the path to the unix-domain-socket. defaults to the compiled in unix domain socket. (yes, it does double duty, she contains multitudes 💅)
  • remoteport — if you want to connect to citserver via TCP, specify its port right here. that's the whole thing.

🌸 DEFAULTS 🌸

so if you just run it with no thoughts and no arguments — honestly a mood — by default userlist connects to a citadel server located at 127.0.0.1 port 504. localhost behavior, as she should. ✨

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

a call to userlist could look like that:

.nf Users currently logged on to My System Session User name Room From host ------- ------------------------- ------------------- ------------------------ 3 Joe Blow Lobby localhost .fi

fr fr that's the raw output, nroff markers (.nf and .fi) and all, we are not touching a single character of it. respect the artifact. 👑

and for the record, what you're seeing in there: the Users currently logged on to My System header, the Session / User name / Room / From host columns, the ------- underlines, and a row where session 3, user Joe Blow, is in the Lobby, from host localhost. a whole little tableau. 🦋

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

1987 - Now the Uncensored Communications Group

nineteen eighty seven to now, bestie. she's been doing this since before most of us were born and she's still slaying. 💖

reminder bestie: the vibe changed, the facts did not. every flag, default, path, port and number above is exactly what the original said. no invented behavior, no guessing, periodt. 🫶

and that's the page!! this was whobbs, dated 2008-1-7, and it came to you straight from the Citadel.org girlies. take care of her, she's been online since 1987 and she's not stopping now. 💜✨🎀🦋🌸

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