Lirc - An IRC Client for Java
-- Introduction

    Lirc is an IRC client for Java. It was written specifically
    because I wanted mIRC for Linux, and no one was porting it :)

    Lirc is written to run under Java 1.1 or later. It is an
    application and not an applet. It started as an applet, but
    I wanted to be able to store user preferences and the such
    so I switched it.. It would not be difficult to convert back.

    If you have any questions, complaints or anything else you want
    to say about Lirc, please e-mail me at jason@vonnieda.org. Also
    if there is a feature you would love to have in Lirc, let me know
    that too! I will try my hardest to add it quickly!

    Lirc will always be available at http://www.vonnieda.org/Lirc, thats
    the home page, and where you should check for new revisions.

    Thanks for checking out Lirc!

-- Legal Information

    Lirc - An IRC Client for Java

    Copyright (c) 1998, Jason von Nieda (jason@vonnieda.org)

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


    Source code should be available at
    http://www.vonnieda.org/Lirc

-- Installation and Running

    To run Lirc you need a Java 1.1 environment. What this means is you need
    either the Java Developers Kit 1.1, or the Java Runtime Environment 1.1,
    both available from http://java.sun.com. You could also use a third party
    port as long as it supports Java 1.1.

    To start Lirc:

    Under Windows:
      A command such as:
        jrew -cp Lirc.jar org.vonnieda.irc.Lirc
      will usually work, this command should be run from the directory
      where you unziped the file this README was in.

    Under UNIX / Linux:
      A command such as:
        jre -cp Lirc.jar org.vonnieda.irc.Lirc
      will usually work, this command should be run from the directory
      where you unziped the file this README was in.



                                                        Cheers,
                                                        Jason von Nieda