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  1. ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
  2. (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton,
  3. alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
  4. ngIRCd is free software and published under the
  5. terms of the GNU General Public License.
  6. -- README --
  7. I. Introduction
  8. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  9. ngIRCd is an Open Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which
  10. is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
  11. Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
  12. generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
  13. "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
  14. Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
  15. II. Status
  16. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  17. It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the
  18. original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
  19. specified by the RFCs.
  20. In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be
  21. used in real IRC networks.
  22. Implemented IRC-commands are:
  23. ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON,
  24. JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE,
  25. OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT,
  26. STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS, WHOWAS.
  27. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
  28. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  29. - no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
  30. - simple, easy understandable configuration file,
  31. - freely published open-source C source code,
  32. - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
  33. - wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
  34. IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
  35. IV. Documentation
  36. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  37. More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
  38. the ngIRCd: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>.
  39. V. Download
  40. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  41. The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>; you will find
  42. the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable")
  43. releases there.
  44. If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
  45. always stable), then please read the section "CVS" on the homepage and
  46. the file "doc/CVS.txt" which describes the use of CVS, the "Concurrent
  47. Versioning System".
  48. VI. Bugs
  49. ~~~~~~~~
  50. If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
  51. them at the following URL:
  52. <http://ngircd.barton.de/#bugs>
  53. There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
  54. If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
  55. mail to <alex@barton.de>.
  56. --
  57. $Id: README,v 1.21.2.2 2007/05/05 20:25:20 alex Exp $