Gyach is a yahoo chat program with a GTK+ interface.  It is based upon
the yahmini program (see AUTHORS file).  It was written for a few reasons:

    1 - I run Linux at home and I couldn't stand the yahoo java interface.
    2 - I didn't want to run qt unless absolutely necessary.
    3 - I wanted to occasionally have something a little more fancy than
	the text-based interface that a few others are working on.
    4 - I'm impatient and didn't want to wait for someone else to write a
	simple GTK-based interface.

So, I got the source to yahmini and created a GTK+ interface for it using
Glade.  Functionality was limited in the early stages, but I continue to
add new features.

Current features:

    * Auto-updated userlist of chatters in the current room.
    * The following commands are supported:
	/away   /follow     /alias     /invite     /mute
	/goto   /ignore     /unalias   /tell       /unmute
	/join   /unignore   /cls       /roll       /history
	/quit   /think      /clear     /autoaway   /exec
	/tell   /invite     /profile   /regex      /friends
	/friend
    * Supports Emotions (to all or and individual).
    * Send/receive PMs.
    * PM chat in separate windows.
    * Editable list of 10 favorite rooms.
    * Supports list of usernames to use to login.
	* Supports connect/disconnect/auto-reconnect.

A sample gyachrc file is included in this directory.  You can copy that
to ~/.gyach/gyachrc and copy emotions.dat to ~/.gyach/emotions.dat
to enable emotions.

Also included are sample ignore lists and regex files (sample.ignore.list
and sample.ignore.regex respectively).

To see a list of items planned or currently being worked on, look at the
TODO file in this directory.

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Gyach has been tested on:

	RedHat v5.x, v6.x
	SuSE v6.4 & v7.0
	Mandrake v7.x
	FreeBSD 4.1.1
	Solaris 8 for Intel/x86 (gcc & gtk v1.2.8)