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                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
 
                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server

+                           http://ngircd.barton.de/

 
 

-                        (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton,
-                    alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
-
+               (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.

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


@@ -15,9 +14,10 @@ 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
 
 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.
+Licence, see the file COPYING for details. ngIRCd means "next generation
+IRC daemon" (which is a little bit exaggerated, "lightweight Internet Relay
+Chat server" would be better), 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!
 
 
 Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
 


@@ -34,22 +34,24 @@ used in real IRC networks.
 
 Implemented IRC-commands are:
 
 
 Implemented IRC-commands are:
 

-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, WALLOPS, WHO, WHOIS,
-WHOWAS.
-
+ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, GLINE, HELP, INFO,
+INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, KLINE, 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?)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
 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.
+- well arranged (lean) configuration file
+- simple to build/install, configure and maintain
+- supports IPv6 and SSL
+- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
+- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source

 - wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
   IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
 - wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
   IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.

+- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.

 
 
 IV. Documentation
 
 
 IV. Documentation


@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ 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
 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/).
+system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git-scm.com/).

 
 
 VI. Bugs
 
 
 VI. Bugs


@@ -83,5 +85,6 @@ 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
 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: <ngircd-ml@arthur.ath.cx> (please see
-<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details).
+mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.barton.de> (please see
+<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details) or join the ngIRCd
+IRC channel: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>.