VChat --- an interactive TCP/IP chat system

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	Copyright (c) 1993/94 by mickey@deadline (Andreas S. Wetzel)
	All rights reserved.

	See the file COPYRIGHT for copyright notices.


	Welcome to VChat!

	VChat - IP is a multi-channel chat system which works over TCP/IP
	Network connections. Here are some of it's features:

	o Multi-channel chat conferences.

	o Hidden channels for private conferences.

	o Automatic adjustment of Screensize through SIGWINCH signal.

	o Full ANSI color support.

	o Configurable linux console color support

	o Configurable AUDIO support for FreeBSD or linux with 
	  sound driver 2.0 or later.

	...end even more ... 


	Terminal support:
	=================

		VChat does not make use of the termcap/terminfo.
		Only DEC vt100 / ANSI compatible terminal emulations
		are supported. The current emulation is determined
		by reading the TERM environment variable. In vt220
		mode vchat takes advantage of the 8bit escape sequences
		offered by vt220. Here is a list of emulations which
		are supported:

		vt1xx   - DEC vt100/vt102/compatible - no colors supported.
		vt2xx   - DEC vt220/vt240/compatible - no colors supported.
		xterm   - X11 Window systems xterm - no colors supported.
		xcterm  - X11 Window systems xcterm - colors supported.
		ansi    - ANSI or compatible - colors supported.
		console - Linux console - color support configurable.

		If VChat runs without colors, though your terminal supports
		ANSI compatible colors, check the setting of your TERM
		environment variable.
 
	TCP/IP Usage:
	=============

		By default VChat uses TCP port 1168 / 1169 for the
		communication between the VChat/Vping servers and the
		client processes. If for some reason you have to change
		this, you can do that by changing the values for
		SERVER_PORT / PING_PORT in the file config.h in the
		top level directory of VChat, or by specifying an
		alternate Portnumber on the commandline of vserver.
		If you compile vping to run under the inetd super-server,
		you will probably have to change the portnumber to be
		used by vping in your /etc/services file.


	AUDIO support:
	==============

		There is a configurable option for sound support in
		conjunction with the linux sound driver 2.0 or later
		for either FreeBSD or Linux. (The sound driver for
		FreeBSD is included in the current FreeBSD distribution)
		Enable this option by uncommenting the line:

		#define AUDIO

		in the config.h file which is located in the top level
		directory of VChat. 

		This option, when enabled, offers you the possibility
		to define a username, which is to be rang to chat, by
		playback of a predefined sample file. (See vping 
		commandline options).

		Either 8, 12 or 16 bit samples, variable sample rates
		and stereo/mono are supported, via commandline option
		or auto-detection, when playing DEADSND files. (See
		below). Device for playback configurable - default:
		8 bit = /dev/dsp ; 16 bit = /dev/dsp16 with auto
		switching in conjunction with the samplesize given
		on the commandline.

	DEADSND file support:
	=====================

		The AUDIO option of VChat enables support for either
		raw sample files or DEADSND files. DEADSND files have
		the correct values for samplesize, playback speed, etc
		stored into a short fileheader. The most recent 
		DEADSND utilities can be obtained from the public
		file archive on -D-E-A-D-L-I-N-E- (see file COPYRIGHT
		for further information on the public file archive)


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