icqlib v1.0.0
Denis V. Dmitrienko <denis@null.net>
Bill Soudan <soudan@kde.org>

DESCRIPTION
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icqlib is the most feature complete, open source, library implementation
of Mirabilis' ICQ protocol available on the Internet. icqlib currently
supports approximately 90% of the ICQ UDP v5 protocol and 80% of the
ICQ TCP v2 protocol, including new UIN registration, chat, and file
transfer.

Features:
* written in C for portability - compiles on most Unices
* supports multiple simultaneous connections to ICQ servers - more
  than one UIN can log in and receive events
* SOCKS5 firewall support for both UDP and TCP protocols
* event driven, non-blocking interface
* supports Russian language - automatically performs conversion from
  Windows 1251 encoding to unix koi8 encoding

DOWNLOAD
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Home page:
      http://kicq.sourceforge.net/icqlib.shtml
Direct download:
      http://download.sourceforge.net/icqlib/icqlib-1.0.0.tar.gz
      ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network/icqlib-1.0.0.tar.gz

INSTALL
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This is very basic:
      ./configure
      make
      su -c "make install"

If you want to install in other place:
      ./configure --prefix=/place/to/install/icqlib
      make
      make install

You should have permissions to write in /place/to/install/icqlib or should
install it from root:
      su -c "make install"

For more details read INSTALL file.

BUGS
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If you find one that isn't listed, submit your bugreport here:
http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=384
And if you have a fix for it, so much the better! Submit your patch
here:
http://sourceforge.net/patch/?group_id=384

PARTICIPATION
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You can participate in icqlib project in any way here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icqlib
Send your feature requests here:
http://sourceforge.net/support/?group_id=384

Please try to avoid abusing developers with direct email messages,
especially if your question could be already answered somewhere in
the project forums or mailing lists. Please use provided above web
forms to submit your reports and requests. And of course, any kind of
contributions and propositions are very appreciated and welcomed, and
could be sent directly. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

THANKS
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To
- Matthew Smith, Magnus Ihse, Jeremy Wise, Henrik Isaksson and other
  people from ICQDev <icq-devel@lists.realminfo.com> and
  micq <micq@phantom.iquest.net> mailing lists for their contribution
  in icq protocol research
- K Desktop Environment developers
- icqlib and kicq users

And finally
- Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox and other Linux programmers for great OS

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Enjoy!
icqlib development team.
