1                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
2 
3                       (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton,
4                     alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
5 
6                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7                    terms of the GNU General Public License.
8 
9                                 -- README --
10                            
11                       Ilja Osthoff, <ilja@glide.ath.cx>
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13 
14 I. Introduction
15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
16 
17 ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Realy Chat (IRC), which
18 is developped and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
19 Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
20 generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
21 "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
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23 
24 
25 II. Status
26 ~~~~~~~~~~~
27 
28 At present, the ngIRCd is under active development, some features are not
29 implemented, some only partly.
30 
31 Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands:
32 
33 ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, ERROR, INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL,
34 LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART,
35 PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, TIME, TOPIC,
36 USERHOST, USER, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS.
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38 
39 III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
41 
42 - no problems with servers which have dynamic ip-adresses
43 - simple, easy understandable configuration file,
44 - freely published C-Sourcecode,
45 - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
46 - supported platforms (tested versions): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD
47   (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), NetBSD
48   (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), and Windows with Cygwin.
49 
50 
51 IV. Documentation
52 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
53 
54 English documentation:
55 
56 - doc/en/README: the file that you are reading :-)
57 - doc/en/INSTALL: hints for the installation of the ngIRCd
58 
59 German documentation:
60 
61 - README: readme text in german
62 - INSTALL: german installation instructions
63 - NEWS: what do you think? :-) 
64 - Changelog: the complete history of the ngIRCd
65 - doc/FAQ.txt: frequently asked questions and answers
66 - doc/CVS.txt: hints for the CVS-system
67 - doc/RFC.txt: information about the RFC's
68 - doc/sample-ngircd.conf: sample configuration file
69 - doc/README-AUX.txt: installation hints for A/UX
70 - doc/README-BeOS.txt: the same for BeOS
71 
72 
73 V. Download
74 ~~~~~~~~~~~
75 
76 The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd>; you
77 will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent
78 ("stable") releases there.
79 
80 If you are interested in the newest developper-versions (which are not
81 always stable), then please read the section "CVS" on the homepage and
82 the file "doc/CVS.txt" which describes the use of CVS, the "Concurrent
83 Versioning System".
84 
85 
86 VI. Bugs
87 ~~~~~~~~
88 
89 If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
90 them at the following URL:
91 
92 <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/#bugs>
93 
94 There you can read about kown bugs, too.
95 
96 If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel yourself free
97 to post a mail to: <alex@barton.de> or <alex@arthur.ath.cx>
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