RE: /msh this

[merlyn]

And then how do I send a / as the first character of a message? Yet Another Special Character. {sigh}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[Corion]

Hmmm - in irc people use either "7" (if they have european keyboard layouts), "?" (for english/american layouts) or " /" (note the leading space) if they want to "fake" a command.