battle.net chat 0.99.1 - README - tile - 09-Apr-1998
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1. License
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Distributed under the GPL license, please read `COPYING' located in this
directory. 

2. Introduction
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This is a small chat client for battle.net, it has an interface exactly
like sirc (i used its ssfe :) and is quite robust for it's size.  It's
still beta so some things might not work how they are expected to. All
in all though, it's still quite usable.

3. Availibility
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Two places you can get the latest version...

	http://www.primenet.com/~tile/bnchat/

or

	http://starhack.ml.org/files/

4. Supported Platforms
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Currently only tested in Linux, but most Unicies should be able to run it.
It most definitely will not work in Windows (ssfe and dbnchat both require a
working fork() call).

5. Using / Building
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You first need two things:

    1) ncurses - new curses, required for terminal manipulation
    2) perl 5.004 or greater, required for the backend stuff

Next run `make' to build ssfe (split-screen front-end). If you already have
ssfe installed (i.e. you've installed sirc), you can skip this step.

Load `bnchat' up in any text editor and make sure the variables are set
correctly, then type bnchat in the directory and it should load up.  I must
remind you this is still very pre-alpha so I can't guarantee anything and USE
AT YOUR OWN RISK, I cannot afford any law suits.

6. Bugs
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Help me find bugs (send to tile@primenet.com), here are the ones found so far.

  -  If you get disconnected for flooding, it doesn't automatically quit
     and you cannot reconnect unless you ctrl-c out and re-run bnchat.