ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server

                      (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
                    alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/

               ngIRCd is free software and published under the
                   terms of the GNU General Public License.

                                -- README --
                           
                      Ilja Osthoff, <ilja@glide.ath.cx>


I. Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which
is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
"grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.


II. Status
~~~~~~~~~~~

At present, the ngIRCd is under active development, some features are not
implemented, some only partly.

Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands:

ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON,
JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN,
NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER,
SQUIT, STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS.


III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
- simple, easy understandable configuration file,
- freely published open-source C source code,
- ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
- supported platforms (tested versions): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD
  (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), NetBSD
  (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), and Windows with Cygwin.


IV. Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
the ngIRCd: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/>.


V. Download
~~~~~~~~~~~

The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd>; you
will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent
("stable") releases there.

If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
always stable), then please read the section "CVS" on the homepage and
the file "doc/CVS.txt" which describes the use of CVS, the "Concurrent
Versioning System".


VI. Bugs
~~~~~~~~

If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
them at the following URL:

<http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/#bugs>

There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.

If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
mail to: <alex@barton.de> or <alex@arthur.ath.cx>


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