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** Introduction
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			Introduction to Nothello

  Nothello is a little project I wrote as a result of being able to play
with the upcoming Grapevine IRC client by Brian Cerveny.  In talking to
Brian, I had visions of all the potentials of having an Amiga-based IRC
client, that can start up other clients as a DCC command.  Nothello was
the first result of my ideas.  I know of others who are planning clients,
as well, and I have more ambitious plans myself.  Nothello was just
something simple enough to learn sockets programming, and to develop my
own routines and style.

While Nothello was designed with IRC startup in mind, it can easily be used
standalone, as well.  All you have to do is call it with the proper
host and port number arguments, which is what Grapevine will do itself.
It's just more privy to that information than you are. :)  To start it up
on your own, which is really the only way until Grapevine itself is released,
you just find an opponent with either AmiTCP or as225 installed, get his
Amiga's hostname or IP number, agree on a suitable port number to use, and
then run it with the proper args.

[Note:	The /DCC startup via Grapevine is subject to change, as Grapevine
	is still in development.  At this time, the planned support through
	Grapevine will be by /DCC command, i.e. /dcc nethello danimal
	If there will be any changes in the startup options for Grapevine
	compatibility, an appropriate version will be released.]

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[generic]                 6214   15670  39.7% -lh5- cd6b Jun  8  1994 Nothello/Nothello.doc
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