This file describes version 1.4.5 of the Liece IRC client.

Copyright (C) 2000 Daiki Ueno.

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Liece
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This file describes version 1.4.5 of the Liece IRC client.

The IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol is for use with text based conferencing.  The standard is documented separately in RFC 1459, RFC 2810, RFC 2811, RFC 2812, RFC 2813.

Prerequisites
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This document assumes that you have already experienced at exploring IRC world and that you are familiar with its basic operations.

If you are new to IRC, I recommend that you should look over the FAQ at Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Help: http://www.irchelp.org.

For Japanese users, IRC users in Japan Home Page http://irc.kyoto-u.ac.jp also provides useful information in cares of living.

How to use
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Environment
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Liece is supposed to run on following Emacsen:

  * Emacs 20.7 or later

  * XEmacs 21.4 or later

This document assumes that you have already obtained and installed them.

Settings
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To get a try at IRC, you need to add the following line to the end of your .emacs file:

     (autoload 'liece "liece" "Begin idling your time away." t)

If you are using GNU Emacs instead of XEmacs, you also need to add the contents of etc/sample.dot.emacs into ~/.liece/init.el.

By hitting M-x liece, you will be asked which IRC server you attempt to connect to and your nickname one after another.