README-2.6

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To install the new server, there is just a few changes to be made.


 * General Comments

Tue Nov 13 12:43:46 1990 Armin Gruner 

(APOLLO: Be sure to have NEED_INET_NETOF, NEED_INET_ADDR and      NEED_INET_NTOA undefined.)

Mon Nov 26 20:10:37 1990 Armin Gruner 

Comment: I just found that compiling on our SUN SPARC with GCC produces code that dumps core.. (that might not happen on your machine, try it,     we may have out-of-date libraries). See netnews gnu.gcc.bug for a dis- cussion about the matter. It seems that gcc passes struct's in a     different manner.


 * Server configuration

Edit the include/config.h to your hearts content, avoiding going beyond the warning line, unless you are *absolute* sure you know what you are doing. If you happen to not take to this warning, you may end up with a server that will not function properly and annoy not only you, but users all around the world.

Old irc client can be found in this package and if you want to use it, check Makefile in directory irc before compiling. There are other, better irc clients in distribution and the client distributed with this version is simply something to begin with if you don't happen to have other clients available.

This version was brought to you by jto@tolsun.oulu.fi and send any bug fixes and suggestions to me.

NOTE: This server does *NOT* have MAIL system installed by default. The reason is that it doesn't work with many systems.

This version introduces you string channels, starting with a plus (+) sign. The first person joining a string channel claims it's ownership and after that is entitiled to use /mode command. Ownerships can be given and taken away with /mode +o and /mode -o Other flags are: s - secret, p - private, l - limited, i - inviteonly. m - moderated, n - no private messages to channel, t - topic settable by operator only New command /KICK kicks a user off channel.

--Jarkko (jto@oulu.fi)