ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server (c)2001,2002 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, I. Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Realy Chat (IRC), which is developped 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: AWAY, DIE, ERROR, ISON, JOIN, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NOTICE, NJOIN, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, TOPIC, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - no problems with servers which have dynamic ip-adresses - simple, easy understandable configuration file, - freely published C-Sourcecode, - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future. - supported platforms (tested versions): A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X, NetBSD (1.5.2), Solaris (2.5.1) and Windows with Cygwin. IV. Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ English documentation: - doc/en/README: the file that you are reading :-) - doc/en/INSTALL: hints for the installation of the ngIRCd German documentation: - README: readme text in german - INSTALL: german installation instructions - NEWS: what do you think? :-) - Changelog: the complete history of the ngIRCd - doc/FAQ.txt: frequently asked questions and answers - doc/CVS.txt: hints for the CVS-system - doc/RFC.txt: information about the RFC's - doc/sample-ngircd.conf: sample configuration file - doc/README-AUX.txt: installation hints for A/UX - doc/README-BeOS.txt: the same for BeOS 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 newest developper-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: There you can read about kown bugs, too. If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel yourself free to post a mail to: or -- $Id: README,v 1.5 2002/05/20 12:02:58 alex Exp $