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               |         XChat 1.8.10a win32         |
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XChat is an IRC (internet relay chat) client. It is primarily a UNIX
program and this windows port is still considered *experimental*.


Requirements:
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 * Windows 95B or higher.
 * At least a 16bit display.


Changes in 1.8.10a from 1.8.10:
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 * Fixed the beeping bug.
 * /set identd 0, can be used to turn off the built-in ident server.
 * Included eight language translations.
 * Included updated OpenSSL 0.9.6g DLLs.


Language Translations:
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 This binary release includes foreign language translations. If you have
 selected your language in Windows' Regional Settings, xchat will use
 that language. For now, only a select few 8859-1 languages have been
 included, they are: Catalan, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian,
 Portuguese and Swedish. Other languages have not been included because
 either:
  a) No one has translated xchat into this language yet.
  b) The translation is horribly outdated.
  c) It's not a ISO-8859-1 language and I don't know how to make it work
     in GTK+ 1.3.0 for win32 yet.


Perl Scripts:
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 xchat.exe is dynamically linked against ActivePerl 5.6. To use it,
 you have to download ActivePerl from: www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/.
 Make sure ActivePerl's bin directory is in your PATH or perl56.dll will
 not be found. The ActivePerl installer can add this for you.
 Scripts copied to the data/ directory will be auto-run at startup.


What doesn't work in the win32 version (compared to UNIX):
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 * The /exec command.
 * gnome, panel, ipv6, zvt, plugin, python, jcode.
 * channel list uses wildcard match instead of regular expressions.
 * tooltips and popup menus always appear on monitor one.
 * keypad / and * keys don't work.
 * cannot set a background pixmap.


See INSTALL.w32 in the source archive for instructions on how to build
xchat yourself.