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+ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
+ http://ngircd.barton.de/
+
+ (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ ngIRCd is free software and published under the
+ terms of the GNU General Public License.
+
+ -- README --
+
+
+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.
+
+Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
+
+
+II. Status
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the
+original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
+specified by the RFCs.
+
+In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be
+used in real IRC networks.
+
+Implemented IRC-commands are:
+
+ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INFO, INVITE,
+ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN,
+NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER,
+SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER,
+USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO, WHOIS, WHOWAS.
+
+
+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.
+- wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
+ IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
+
+
+IV. Documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
+the ngIRCd: .
+
+
+V. Download
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The homepage of the ngIRCd is: ; 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 about "GIT" on the homepage and
+the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control
+system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git.or.cz/).
+
+
+VI. Bugs
+~~~~~~~~
+
+If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
+them at the following URL:
+
+
+
+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 the ngIRCd mailing list: (please see
+ for details).