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<p><strong>About Eggdrop</strong></p>
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<p>Eggdrop was created around December 1993 to help stop the incessant
wars on #gayteen. It spawned from another bot that was in the process of
being written at the time called "Unrest". The purpose of
Unrest was to answer help requests from other bots. The first public
release was version 0.6, and since then, it has grown into what you have
before you.</p>
<p>Eggdrop is the World's most popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot;
it is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Eggdrop is a feature rich program designed to be easily used and
expanded upon by both novice and advanced IRC users on a variety of
hardware and software platforms.</p>
<p>An IRC bot is a program that sits on an IRC channel and preforms
automated tasks while looking just like a normal user on the channel.
Some of these functions include protecting the channel from abuse,
allowing privileged users to gain op or voice status, logging channel
events, providing information, hosting games, etc.</p>
<p>One of the features that makes Eggdrop stand out from other bots is
module and Tcl scripting support. With scripts and modules, you can make
the bot preform almost any task you want. They can do anything from
preventing floods to greeting users and banning advertisers from
channels.</p>
<p>You can also link multiple Eggdrop bots together to form a botnet.
This can allow bots to op each other securely, control floods efficiently,
and even link channels across multiple IRC networks. It also allows the
Eggdrops share user lists, ban lists, exempt/invite lists, and ignore
lists with other bots if userfile sharing is enabled. This allows users
to have the same access on every bot on your botnet. It also allows the
bots to distribute tasks such as opping and banning users. See doc/BOTNET
for information on setting up a botnet.</p>
<p>Eggdrop is always being improved and adjusted because there are bugs
to be fixed and features to be added (if the users demand them, and they
make actually sense). In fact, it existed for several years as v0.7 -
v0.9 before finally going 1.0. This version of Eggdrop is part of the
1.6 tree. A valiant effort has been made to chase down and destroy
bugs.</p>
<p>To use Eggdrop, you need:</p>
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<li>Some sort of Unix account</li>
<li>A pretty good knowledge of IRC and Unix, including how to
compile programs, how to read, and what DCC chat is, at absolute
minimum.</li>
<li>About 5-7 MB of disk space. The Eggdrop tarball is about 4.8 MB
unpacked.</li>
<li>Tcl -- Eggdrop cannot compile without Tcl installed on your
shell.</li>
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<p>Before starting, ask yourself if you really need a bot. Most IRC
servers allow only a handful of bots, and some forbid them outright.
The reason? Too many people run bots as "toys" or as a means
of destruction. If you want to use Eggdrop for destructive purposes, go
ahead and erase this directory now. It's almost impossible to do
what you want with this bot.</p>
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<p><em>Copyright © 1997 Robey Pointer<br>
Copyright © 1999 - 2008 Eggheads Development Team
<a href="http://www.eggheads.org/"> Eggheads Development Team</a></em></p>
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