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Installing NetHirc
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If you really want to get things installed a nice and pretty way,

	sh install.sh

It will ask approximately one question.  If you can't answer it,
you need serious help.  You are free to answer the question on the
command line, and the install script will run non-interactively:

	sh install.sh /opt/VJarez

In this case, the files will be installed under /opt/VJarez/bin,
/opt/VJarez/share, etc.  You know the routine, because you've
installed free software before, right?

To successfully get NetHirc running, you need to set the NHIRCLIB
environment variable.  It is a colon-separated path of directories
where nethirc looks for its support files.  It should at least have
the directory suggested by install.sh in it, but if you are brave
enough to customize things (see the HACKING file for details)
you might have more directories searched.

After that is set up, you should be able to run nethirc without
any trouble, provided that you know where your Perl binary is. :-)
Feel free to track down Roger Espel Llima's split-screen front end
program (ssfe) and use that; NetHirc runs pretty well under it,
but one of its sillier (nonessential) features is made unavailable
by it.

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NetHirc for the Impatient
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If you don't care about things and just want to get things running
in a pretty way:

NHIRCLIB=. ; export NHIRCLIB	# sh/ksh/bash
setenv NHIRCLIB .		# csh/tcsh

Find yourself a sirc tarball
(http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/sirc/sirc.html comes to
mind) and build the ssfe binary out of it.  Throw the binary
somewhere in your $PATH.  Don't use sirc itself because I tried it
and didn't like it. :-)

If you're feeling frisky, create a file called .falsident in your
home directory with a fake login name that will be returned by
identd.  (Provided, of course, that you hacked your identd to do
that.)

Create a file called .ircname in your home directory with a witty
string that will show up instead of your GECOS.

ssfe ./nhirc.sh -s irc.server.of.your.choice

Feel free to read nhirc.sh, it's a simple script that sets up some
things for you.  If NetHirc runs successfully, you will have a very
typical IRC command set available to you. 

$Id: INSTALL,v 1.3 1999/09/02 17:02:17 tony Exp $
