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@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
+ http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2005 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.
@@ -15,9 +14,12 @@ 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.
+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
@@ -32,41 +34,44 @@ used in real IRC networks.
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, 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?)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- 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.
+- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
IV. Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
-the ngIRCd: .
+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.
+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 "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-scm.com/).
VI. Bugs
@@ -75,13 +80,11 @@ 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: or
-
-
---
-$Id: README,v 1.20 2005/06/26 21:54:01 alex Exp $
+mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: (please see
+ for details) or join the ngIRCd
+IRC channel: .