X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=372498d8ef370059e39b3f087b196fe01e7680d7;hp=5ef1503091695a30d06d8efa94db78c14b03640f;hb=e07542a1ff0f33b35dbab854596f29011e1ccf63;hpb=408793c2cac7b4b4e13ff2e7c5b683dbea976a23 diff --git a/README b/README index 5ef15030..372498d8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,45 +1,86 @@ - ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton, alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ - ngIRCd ist freie Software und steht unter - der GNU General Public License. + 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: + +ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, ERROR, INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, +LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, +PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, TIME, TOPIC, +USERHOST, USER, 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): 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. + + +IV. Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- README / Liesmich -- +More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory (in english). Please +have a look at "doc/de/" if you are looking for german documentation. -ngIRCd ist ein Server fuer den Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Er ist von Grund -auf neu geschrieben, also nicht wie die meisten anderen IRCd's vom Urvater, -dem Daemon des IRCNet abgeleitet. +V. Download +~~~~~~~~~~~ -Zur Zeit befindet sich ngIRCd noch in Entwicklung, vieles ist noch nicht -implementiert bzw. nur "halbherzig": Channels gibt es noch nicht, genau so -wenig wie Server-Links. Das private Chatten (PRIVMSG) mit den Client-Befehlen -/msg und /query sollte hingegen funktionieren, ein wenig praktische Funk- -tionalitaet ist also tatsaechlich schon vorhanden ;-) +The homepage of the ngIRCd is: ; you +will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent +("stable") releases there. -Bisher (mehr oder wenig vollstaendig) implementierte IRC-Befehle: +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". -DIE, ERROR, ISON, JOIN, LINKS, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NOTICE, NJOIN, -OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, USER, -USERHOST, WHOIS. -Ueber Rueckmeldungen, Bug-Reports und Patches freue ich mich! Also los, haut -in die Tasten! :-)) +VI. Bugs +~~~~~~~~ -Via E-Mail erreichst du mich als bzw. . -Die Homepage des ngIRCd findest du unter . +If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report +them at the following URL: -[ ... more to come ... ] + +There you can read about kown bugs, too. -Hinweise zur Installation findest du in der Datei INSTALL. -Alle Autoren von ngIRCd sind in AUTHORS aufgefuehrt. -In der Datei COPYING steht die GNU General Public License. -Das README liest du gerade ,-) +If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel yourself free +to post a mail to: or -- -$Id: README,v 1.4 2002/01/29 00:17:39 alex Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.15 2003/01/04 13:12:39 alex Exp $