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

-                      (c)2001-2003 by Alexander Barton,
+                        (c)2001-2006 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 --
                     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, <ilja@glide.ath.cx>

 
 
 I. Introduction
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
 
 I. Introduction
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

-ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which
+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
 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


@@ -25,15 +23,19 @@ generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
 II. Status
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 II. Status
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 

-At present, the ngIRCd is under active development, some features are not
-implemented, some only partly.
+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.

 
 

-Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands:
+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, INVITE, ISON,
 
 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, WHO, WHOIS.
+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, WHO, WHOIS, WHOWAS.

 
 
 III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
 
 
 III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)


@@ -43,24 +45,23 @@ III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
 - simple, easy understandable configuration file,
 - freely published open-source C source code,
 - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
 - simple, easy understandable configuration file,
 - freely published open-source C source code,
 - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.

-- supported platforms (tested versions): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD
-  (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), NetBSD
-  (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), 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.

 
 
 IV. Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
 
 
 IV. Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of

-the ngIRCd: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/>.
+the ngIRCd: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>.

 
 
 V. Download
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
 
 V. Download
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 

-The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd>; you
-will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent
-("stable") releases there.
+The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>; 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 "CVS" on the homepage and
 
 If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
 always stable), then please read the section "CVS" on the homepage and


@@ -74,13 +75,13 @@ VI. Bugs
 If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
 them at the following URL:
 
 If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
 them at the following URL:
 

-<http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/#bugs>
+<http://ngircd.barton.de/#bugs>

 
 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: <alex@barton.de> or <alex@arthur.ath.cx>
+mail to <alex@barton.de>.

 
 
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-$Id: README,v 1.17 2003/03/09 22:03:58 alex Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.22 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $