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ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
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(c)2001-2003 by Alexander Barton,
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alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
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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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-- README --
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Ilja Osthoff, <ilja@glide.ath.cx>
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I. Introduction
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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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II. Status
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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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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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III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
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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), and Windows with Cygwin.
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IV. Documentation
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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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V. Download
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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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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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VI. Bugs
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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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<http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/#bugs>
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There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
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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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$Id: README,v 1.17 2003/03/09 22:03:58 alex Exp $
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