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|                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
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|                       (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
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|                     alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
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| 
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|                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
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|                    terms of the GNU General Public License.
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| 
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|                                 -- README --
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|                            
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|                       Ilja Osthoff, <ilja@glide.ath.cx>
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| 
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| 
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| I. Introduction
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 
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| ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which
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| is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
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| Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
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| generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
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| "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
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| 
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| 
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| II. Status
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 
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| At present, the ngIRCd is under active development, some features are not
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| implemented, some only partly.
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| 
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| Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands:
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| ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON,
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| JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN,
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| NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER,
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| SQUIT, STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS.
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| 
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| 
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| III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 
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| - no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
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| - simple, easy understandable configuration file,
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| - freely published open-source C source code,
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| - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
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| - supported platforms (tested versions): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD
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|   (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), NetBSD
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|   (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), Windows with Cygwin, and
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|   OpenBSD (3.4/i386).
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| 
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| 
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| IV. Documentation
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 
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| More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
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| the ngIRCd: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/>.
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| 
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| 
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| V. Download
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 
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| The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd>; you
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| will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent
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| ("stable") releases there.
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| 
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| If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
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| always stable), then please read the section "CVS" on the homepage and
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| the file "doc/CVS.txt" which describes the use of CVS, the "Concurrent
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| Versioning System".
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| 
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| 
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| VI. Bugs
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| ~~~~~~~~
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| If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
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| them at the following URL:
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| 
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| <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/#bugs>
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| 
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| There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
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| 
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| If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
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| mail to: <alex@barton.de> or <alex@arthur.ath.cx>
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| 
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| 
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| -- 
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| $Id: README,v 1.19 2004/05/07 11:19:20 alex Exp $
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