BitchX-1.1-Final Readme file by sin <sin@bitchx.org> ====================================================== BitchX is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client by Colten Edwards aka panasync@efnet. BitchX was originally based on ircII 2.8, but is currently based on the ircii-EPIC4 releases by Jeremy Nelson. BitchX was originally started as a script by Trench and HappyCrappy for the popular UNIX IRC client ircII. Around Christmas of 1994 the script was patched directly into the client by panasync. Now in 2004 we are looking to revive the development of the client by merging it back to the current release of Epic and cleaning some of the features that are no longer needed or supported and moving on with the building of a whole new client. 10 years of BitchX and we're not nearly done yet. The new client will be based upon the final release of EPIC4 and will exclude a great number of the old features such as support for OS/2 and GTK which was very old and bloated plus there were problems with the gtk client causing quite a hit to the CPU. The upside is that the client will be pulled back into a sane code base. Less bloat and overhead is always good for you the user. For persons interested in becoming involved in the new project please visit our forums website at http://www.cyberpunkz.org or join EFnet #BitchX. A special thanks to panasync. Links: ====== http://www.bitchx.org/ <-- The official BitchX web site ftp://ftp.bitchx.org/ <-- The official BitchX ftp site http://scripts.bitchx.org/ <-- The official BitchX script web site http://faq.bitchx.org/ <-- FAQ Website http://bugs.bitchx.org/ <-- Bug Reporting tool http://forums.bitchx.org/ <-- Q&A Forums (Ask for help here!) http://we.got.net/~brian/ <-- Another BitchX script site (fudd's) Contacts: ======== Readme File Maintainer: sin FAQ Maintainers: sin, powuh, dovee, kreca, fudd, Xavier, tilt, venoma, shattah ice-man, IRule, rain, novalogic, MHacker Web Maintainers: novalogic & powuh Lists Maintainer: raistlin@tacorp.net Scripts Maintainer: powuh, sin ====================================================================== After reading this PLEASE read the FAQ: http://faq.bitchx.org ======================================================================