	This is the read file for Schrodinger's Box Haven.  I am releasing
this preliminary -0.1 alpha release since a few folks want it and I have 
to start working on my 4th honours thesis this week.  So I am not going 
to be working on it any further after today in the meantime.  Send all 
bug reports to:
	
	au233@freenet.carleton.ca   <--- (preferred address for now)
	gjc@achilles.net

No guarantees right now.

	This code was written on a 60MHz pentium with Linux slackware 2.0 
installed (kernel version 1.1.18).  I haven't had the chance to port it to any
other architecture yet.  If and when I get time (perhaps around the xmas 
break), I may work on ports to SunOS, Ultrix, and perhaps HP-UX.

	Spam protection was written in as the #1 priority since most haven 
chatlines are famous for being spammed.  :)   I had 30 "beavis and butthead 
bots" and 5 tinyfugue mud clients (with cyborg triggers feeding upon 
themselves) spamming the server code for 2-3 days on end without crashing 
once.  


- once you unpack the archive, change to the directory the code is in and
  type  'make'  to compile the server code
- to start up the server, type  'chat portnumber'  (where portnumber 
  is >= 1024, and the default port is 7283 if no portnumber is given) and it 
  will put itself into the background as a daemon process 
- type  'telnet localhost portnumber'  to connect to the chatline


Features
--------

- when you are typing, all the other user's text will be fully buffered 
  until you type return
- you can change channels and lock the channel if you want
- for annoying users, you can gag them so that you don't have to hear them  :)
- if you wanna be annoying yourself, you can reverse-gag another user so that
  they can't hear what you are saying about them  :) 
- ANSI colour support
- you can send private messages
- you can have your output linewraped if your terminal doesn't linewrap 
  by itself
- help files and intro screen files are in the directory  /files
- there are 5 security levels which have the passwords in the security.c file


Acknowledgments
---------------

	This haven chatline code was based partly on: 

- the Opium Den code supplied by Joel M. Ward (jward@uccs.edu) 

  and 

- the unixCB code supplied by Gary Grossman (garyg@soda.berkeley.edu).


					Gord J.C.

			a.k.a.  Schrodinger (haven name)
                                kris/Schrodinger's Cat (vrave)
