X-Chat README
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 X-Chat Copyright (c) 1998-2002 By Peter Zelezny.

 This program is released under the GPL with the additional exemption
 that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may
 provide binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that
 all other requirements of the GPL are met. 
 See file COPYING for details.


What is it?
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 X-Chat is an IRC client for UNIX operating systems. I.R.C. is Internet
 Relay Chat, see http://irchelp.org for more information about IRC in
 general. Xchat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.


Requirements:
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 * X11 - X Window System (except on Windows).
 * GTK+ 1.2.0+ (this is available at http://www.gtk.org).

 X-Chat is known to work on, at least:

	* Linux
	* FreeBSD
	* OpenBSD
	* NetBSD
	* Solaris
	* AIX
	* IRIX
	* DEC/Compaq Tru64 UNIX
	* HP-UX 10.20 and 11
	* MacOS X
	* Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000


Updates?
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 Latest version is available at:

 http://xchat.org

 Please refer your suggestions/bug reports to zed at xchat dot org.


Autoloading Perl Scripts and Plugins
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 * X-Chat automatically loads any ~/.xchat/*.pl perl scripts at startup.
 * X-Chat automatically loads any ~/.xchat/*.so plugins at startup.
 * X-Chat automatically loads any ~/.xchat/*.py python scripts at startup.


Control Codes:
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 %%     -  A single percentage sign
 %C     -  Control-C (mIRC color code)
 %B     -  Bold Text
 %U     -  Underline Text
 %R     -  Reverse Text
 %O     -  Reset all Text attributes
 %XXX   -  ASCII XXX (where XXX is a decimal 3 digit number)
           (Eg: %007 sends a BEEP)

 %Cforeground,background will produce a color code, eg: %C03,10