1 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton,
4 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
6 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex terms of the GNU General Public License.
11 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex Ilja Osthoff, <ilja@glide.ath.cx>
14 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex I. Introduction
15 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
17 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Realy Chat (IRC), which
18 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex is developped and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
19 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
20 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
21 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
28 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex At present, the ngIRCd is under active development, some features are not
29 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex implemented, some only partly.
31 0b1635e3 2002-05-20 alex Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands:
33 0c9f22ac 2002-09-16 alex ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, ERROR, INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL,
34 0c9f22ac 2002-09-16 alex LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART,
35 ae128734 2002-11-24 alex PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, TIME, TOPIC,
36 ae128734 2002-11-24 alex USERHOST, USER, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS.
39 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
40 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
42 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - no problems with servers which have dynamic ip-adresses
43 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - simple, easy understandable configuration file,
44 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - freely published C-Sourcecode,
45 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
46 0c9f22ac 2002-09-16 alex - supported platforms (tested versions): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD
47 0c9f22ac 2002-09-16 alex (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), NetBSD
48 0c9f22ac 2002-09-16 alex (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), and Windows with Cygwin.
51 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex IV. Documentation
52 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
54 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex English documentation:
56 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/en/README: the file that you are reading :-)
57 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/en/INSTALL: hints for the installation of the ngIRCd
59 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex German documentation:
61 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - README: readme text in german
62 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - INSTALL: german installation instructions
63 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - NEWS: what do you think? :-)
64 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - Changelog: the complete history of the ngIRCd
65 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/FAQ.txt: frequently asked questions and answers
66 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/CVS.txt: hints for the CVS-system
67 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/RFC.txt: information about the RFC's
68 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/sample-ngircd.conf: sample configuration file
69 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/README-AUX.txt: installation hints for A/UX
70 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex - doc/README-BeOS.txt: the same for BeOS
76 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd>; you
77 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent
78 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex ("stable") releases there.
80 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex If you are interested in the newest developper-versions (which are not
81 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex always stable), then please read the section "CVS" on the homepage and
82 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex the file "doc/CVS.txt" which describes the use of CVS, the "Concurrent
83 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex Versioning System".
89 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
90 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex them at the following URL:
92 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/#bugs>
94 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex There you can read about kown bugs, too.
96 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel yourself free
97 cfe1893d 2002-05-08 alex to post a mail to: <alex@barton.de> or <alex@arthur.ath.cx>
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