--- Amiga IRC ---
                             (DNET Version)

                              Version 1.0
                           November 25, 1992

                             by Rick Kent
                    Internet: rkent@sparc1.csubak.edu
                             AOL: RickK32


INTRODUCTION
------------

What is IRC?  IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat.  The original IRC was
designed under Unix for use on the Internet.  It allows people from all
over the world to join in live discussion groups and talk to each other
in a multi-user chat system.  Since its conception, the popularity of IRC
has grown tremendously.  At present, there are usually hundreds of people
online in IRC with well over a hundred live discussion groups.  Although
originally designed under Unix, there are now IRC clients written for other
platforms as well such as the PC and Macintosh, but until now there was no
client package for the Amiga.


WHAT DO I NEED TO RUN IRC?
--------------------------

To run this IRC client package you must have the following:

    - Workbench 2.0 (Version 37 or higher)

    - DNET Software (Originally designed by Matt Dillon): DNET is a
      serial network communications protocol which allows you to
      run a network connection between two Amiga's or an Amiga and
      a Unix station (similar to SLIP but less complex).

    - A Unix shell account which has direct access to the Internet
      (The Unix version of DNET must be installed on this machine).

    - The DNET INTERLINK module (included).

    - reqtools.library (included).  Note: Reqtools is Copyright (c)
      Nico Francois.


WHY DO I NEED DNET?
-------------------

In order to connect to an IRC server machine on the Internet you must
have some sort of Internet access.  In a standard setup, to use IRC
you would have to have your PC, Mac, Amiga, or whatever connected
directly into the Internet.  The number of Amiga machines with this
kind of direct access is extrememely low.  This is where DNET comes
in.  DNET allows you to start up a serial network connection between
your Amiga and a Unix machine.  If the Unix machine you connect to
is on the Internet, then it becomes possible to access Internet
services.  Once the DNET INTERLINK module is installed on both the
Amiga and Unix machine, then your Amiga has a psuedo-connection to
the Internet.  Properly written DNET clients can then open a BSD
socket-like connection to any site on the Internet.  Thus, the Amiga
IRC client software simply opens a socket connection directly to an
IRC server machine (of your choice) on the Internet.

Note: Although this version requires DNET, there is a chance that I may
design another version in the future that will use a standard TCP/IP
connection.  At this time however, I do not have access to an Amiga
that is directly connected into the internet via TCP/IP.

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[generic]                41479   87616  47.3% -lh5- dad6 Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/Amiga-IRC
[generic]                  322     598  53.8% -lh5- 6faf Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/Amiga-IRC.info
[generic]                 8898   15352  58.0% -lh5- e819 Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/dfinger
[generic]                  423     898  47.1% -lh5- 8d4b Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/dfinger.doc
[generic]                   52      52 100.0% -lh0- 6e8a Jan 21  1992 Amiga-IRC/Install-Reqtools
[generic]                  219     715  30.6% -lh5- 4f65 Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/Install-Reqtools.info
[generic]                  425     975  43.6% -lh5- ee6c Jan 21  1992 Amiga-IRC/Install.script
[generic]                 6391   24576  26.0% -lh5- 4790 Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/interlink.tar
[generic]                 7593   20400  37.2% -lh5- 38ae Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/IRC Server List
[generic]                  237     495  47.9% -lh5- 690f Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/IRC Server List.info
[generic]                 9570   27537  34.8% -lh5- 2674 Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/IRC.DOC
[generic]                  233     495  47.1% -lh5- 98d2 Dec  6  1992 Amiga-IRC/IRC.DOC.info
[generic]                13751   20936  65.7% -lh5- 1e39 Jan 21  1992 Amiga-IRC/kick20/reqtools.library
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