The first thing you see will be a whole blurb from the server.. it looks like this
:Europe.Invincible.Net NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
:Europe.Invincible.Net NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname
:Europe.Invincible.Net NOTICE AUTH :*** Checking ident...
:Europe.Invincible.Net NOTICE AUTH :*** Received ident response
1) Set your NICK (all telnet commands are in capitals)
NICK yournick
And it shows
:Europe.Invincible.Net NOTICE yournick :*** If you need assistance with connecting to this server, Europe.Invincible.Net, please refer to: http://www.invincible.net/connect/
USER yournickname!your@e-mail address name1 name2 details
for example
USER [email protected] Paul Bloggs IRCuser
The server shows it's MOTD (message of the day) then you can IRC away bearing in mind, that you don't need /commands you just type the command in capital letters. To join a channel
JOIN #channel
to talk to a channel, you have to tell it how to talk.. which means typing
PRIVMSG #Channel your message here
before each message, it takes a little getting used to... I suggest you use an IRC client.