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94 lines
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ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
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http://ngircd.barton.de/
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(c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
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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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I. Introduction
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for
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small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License
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(GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It is simple to configure,
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can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is
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written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
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The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit
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exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would be a
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better name :-)
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Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
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II. Status
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the
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original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
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specified by the RFCs.
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In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be
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used in real IRC networks.
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Implemented IRC-commands are:
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ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, GLINE, HELP, INFO,
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INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, KLINE, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD,
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NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT,
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REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON,
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TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO,
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WHOIS, WHOWAS.
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III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- well arranged (lean) configuration file
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- simple to build/install, configure and maintain
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- supports IPv6 and SSL
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- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
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- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source
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- wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
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IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
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- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
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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://ngircd.barton.de/>.
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V. Download
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>; you will find
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the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable")
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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 about "GIT" on the homepage and
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the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control
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system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git-scm.com/).
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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://ngircd.barton.de/bugtracker.php>
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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 the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.barton.de> (please see
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<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details) or join the ngIRCd
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IRC channel: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>.
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