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

+                           http://ngircd.barton.de/

 
 

-                      (c)2001-2004 by 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.
 
                                 -- README --
                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
 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!

 
 
 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.

 
 

-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.
+Implemented IRC-commands are:

 
 

+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?)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


@@ -43,29 +48,28 @@ 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
 
 If you are interested in the latest development 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".
+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
 
 
 VI. Bugs


@@ -74,13 +78,10 @@ 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/bugtracker.php>

 
 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>
-
-
--- 
-$Id: README,v 1.18 2004/01/26 02:23:54 alex Exp $
+mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.ath.cx> (please see
+<http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details).