X-Chat README
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 X-Chat Copyright (c) 1998-2000 By Peter Zelezny.


What is it?
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 X-Chat is a X11 (X Window System) IRC client, using the GTK+ toolkit.


Requirements:
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 - A UNIX computer (Linux/BSD etc) and C compiler (gcc)
 - X11 (X Window System)
 - GTK+ 1.2.0+ (this is available at http://www.gtk.org)
   (You can build the text based version without GTK).

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

	- Linux
	- FreeBSD
	- OpenBSD
	- NetBSD
	- Solaris
	- AIX
	- IRIX


Updates?
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 Latest version is available at:

 http://xchat.org

 Please refer your suggestions/bug reports to zed@linux.com


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
