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                      |____/ \__,_|_| |_|\___\___|_|   the IRC bot

TITLE

	Dancer - an IRC (ro)bot.

DESCRIPTION
	Your best friend. Your main channel service provider. Your fighter
	for piece and freedom. It's a program. It's a machine. It's lovely.
	We did it for you.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

	* One of the following Operating Systems

		SYSV:	Solaris 2
			IRIX
                        HPUX (v9 and v10)
                        Digital Unix (4.0)
                        AIX (4.1.4)
		BSD:	SunOS 4
			NetBSD
			FreeBSD
		Misc:	Linux
			Ultrix
		Amiga:	AmigaOS
                Win32:  NT (see the win32/ directory for details)

	* A C-compiler (preferably GNU C-compiler gcc)

	* A Make program (preferably GNU Make)

INSTALLATION

	To compile dancer do the following. The '>' letter represents
	a Unix shell prompt.

		1. Compile with "make"
		   > make

	(The first time this is done, the machine configuration is scanned
	and files are setup accordingly. To do nothing but the configuration,
	enter 'make configure'.)

	Before running you must configure the bot.

		2. Invoke the installer script and fill in the answers
		   > make install

	If successful jump to 4.

	If that isn't working for some reason, try the manual install
	procedure:

		3a. Copy the files from the 'examples' directory and
		   edit them to suit your needs.
		   > cp examples/* .

                3b. Invoke 'dancer config >dancer.config' to generate a
                    decent template to start with!

		3c. Edit 'dancer.config' to suit your needs

		3d. Edit 'dancer.users' to contain your entry

		3e. Edit 'launch.sh' to contain the correct path

	And then run it.

		4. Start the bot with the 'launch' script
		   > launch.sh


LEGAL ISSUES

	All files in this archive are subject to the GNU General Public
	License - please refer to the file 'COPYING'.

	Some files are under their own copyright notice, which happens to
	be GNU GPL as well - these are regex.h, regex.c, and numeric.h

	The RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm used
        for encryption is under its own copyright notice. Please, refer
	to ourcrypt.c

	No warrenties are given and no responsibilities are accepted.

AVAILABILITY

	World Wide Web page at

		http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/dancer/

	Latest software release at

                ftp://ftp.dk.net/pub/network/irc/dancer/

MAILING-LIST

	To subscribe to the Dancer mailing list, write
                subscribe dancer <your email address>
	in the body of a mail to majordomo@list.dknet.dk. The subject line
        can be left empty as it will be ignored.

        Read the mailing list archive at

                http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/dancer/archive/

AUTHORS

	Main authors are

		Bjørn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk>
		Daniel Stenberg <Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se>.

	Contributing authors are

		Philippe Brand <phb@telesys-innov.fr>
		Björn Stenberg <Bjorn.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se>
		Andrew Gray <DarkDesigns@trader.com>
		Tero Jänkä <tesaja@utu.fi>
                Keith Blakemore-Noble <keith@amiga.u-net.com>
                Ulf Heiman <eluhe@sydkraft.se>
                Justin <justin@mistral.co.uk>

        Contributing translators are

                Ronny Bangsund <fvacuum@usa.net>
                Hans Hasselaar <hanshass@xs4all.nl>
                Marcus A. Hofmann <marcus.hofmann@stud.uni-muenchen.de> 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

	Big thank you to

                Bobby Billingsley for running the mailing-list and the danish
                ftp archive.

		Ray Darrah for running the previous mailing-list and the
		netcom ftp archive.

		The authors of the IRC server (ircd) and the IRC client
		ircII, for all the peeks we've had into their source codes.

	and to all the people who sends bug-reports, suggestions, and
	comments.