### whois <nickname>
will show you the bot information about a user record. there are
five headings:
HANDLE the handle (nickname) of the user
PASS "yes" if she has a password set, "no" if not
NOTES number of notes stored waiting for the user
FLAGS the list of flags for this user (see below)
LAST the time or date that the user was last on the
channel

the valid flags under FLAGS are:

o
 global op (bot will op this user on any channel)
m
 master (user is a bot master)
n owner (user is the bot owner)
t botnet master (user is a botnet master)
x xfer (user has file-area access)
j janitor (user is a file-area master)
p party-line (user has party-line access)
c common (user record is a common-access site) [see 'help common']
u unshared (not sent to other share-bots)
b bot (user is another bot)
d global deop (user cannot get ops)
k global auto-kick (user kicked & banned automatically)
f global friend (user is not punished for doing bad things)
v global voice (user get +v automatically on +autovoice channels)
a global auto-op (always op this user on join)
h high-light flag, user sees highlighting in text output
w wasop-test (needs wasop test for +stopnethack procedure)
e global exempted from stopnethack
g give auto-voice (works as +a but for voice instead)

(plus 26 user-defined flags, A-Z)


each channel that the user has joined will have a specific record
for it, with the channel-specific flags and possibly an info
line. the channel-specific flags are:

m master (user is a master for the channel)
n owner (user is an owner for the channel)
o op (bot will give this user chanop)
d deop (bot will not allow this user to become a chanop)
f friend (user is not punished for doing bad things)
k kick (user is auto-kicked)
v voice (user gets +v automatically on +autovoice channels)
q quiet (user never gets +v on +autovoice channels)
a auto-op (always op this user on join)
w wasop-test (needs wasop test for +stopnethack procedure)
e exempted from stopnethack
g give auto-voice (works as +a but for voice instead)
(plus 26 user-defined flags, A-Z)


hostmasks for the user are displayed on the following lines.
if the user entry is for a bot, there will be a line below which
says "ADDRESS:" and gives the bot's telnet address. some user
entries may have "EMAIL:" and "INFO:" entries too.
There may be additional information displayed depending on the
modules loaded.

for bots, there are additional flags seen under the BOTATTR:
entry, these include:
s share (bot is sharing user records, aggressively)
p share (bot is sharing user records, passively)
g global share (share all channels)
h hub (bot is auto-linked at highest priority)
a alternate (bot is auto-linked if no hub bots can be linked)
l leaf (bot is not allowed to link in other bots)
r reject (bot will not be allowed on the net)
i isolate (isolate the party line across a botlink)
(plus 10 user-defined flags, 0-9)
bots may also have +s (share) settings for individual channels
masters: if there is a comment, you will see it under "COMMENT:"