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- Nothello is a little project I wrote as a result of being able to play
- with the upcoming Grapevine IRC client by Brian Cerveny. In talking to
- Brian, I had visions of all the potentials of having an Amiga-based IRC
- client, that can start up other clients as a DCC command. Nothello was
- the first result of my ideas. I know of others who are planning clients,
- as well, and I have more ambitious plans myself. Nothello was just
- something simple enough to learn sockets programming, and to develop my
- own routines and style.
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- While Nothello was designed with IRC startup in mind, it can easily be used
- standalone, as well. All you have to do is call it with the proper
- host and port number arguments, which is what Grapevine will do itself.
- It's just more privy to that information than you are. :) To start it up
- on your own, which is really the only way until Grapevine itself is released,
- you just find an opponent with either AmiTCP or as225 installed, get his
- Amiga's hostname or IP number, agree on a suitable port number to use, and
- then run it with the proper args.
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- [Note: The /DCC startup via Grapevine is subject to change, as Grapevine
- is still in development. At this time, the planned support through
- Grapevine will be by /DCC command, i.e. /dcc nethello danimal
- If there will be any changes in the startup options for Grapevine
- compatibility, an appropriate version will be released.]
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