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ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
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(c)2001-2007 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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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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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, HELP, INFO, INVITE,
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ISON, 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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SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER,
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USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO, WHOIS, WHOWAS.
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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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- 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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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.or.cz/).
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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.ath.cx> (please see
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<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details).
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