ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
- (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton,
+ (c)2001-2003 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.
- -- NEWS / Neuigkeiten --
+ -- NEWS --
ngIRCd CVS-HEAD
configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
- Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
+ - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
+ - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
- ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
new switch "--enable-rendezvous" to configure.
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-$Id: NEWS,v 1.50 2003/02/23 12:02:39 alex Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.51 2003/03/04 14:12:30 alex Exp $
+
ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
- (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton,
+ (c)2001-2003 by Alexander Barton,
alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
"grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
-
II. Status
~~~~~~~~~~~
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.
+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.
III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- no problems with servers which have dynamic ip-adresses
+- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
- simple, easy understandable configuration file,
-- freely published C-Sourcecode,
+- freely published open-source 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
IV. Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-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.
+More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
+the ngIRCd: <http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/>.
V. Download
will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent
("stable") releases there.
-If you are interested in the newest developper-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".
<http://arthur.ath.cx/~alex/ngircd/#bugs>
-There you can read about kown bugs, too.
+There you can read about kown bugs and limitations, too.
-If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel yourself free
-to post a mail to: <alex@barton.de> or <alex@arthur.ath.cx>
+If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
+mail to: <alex@barton.de> or <alex@arthur.ath.cx>
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