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

DESCRIPTION

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

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

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

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

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

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.