README - Basic information on the Lachesis IRCRPG combat engine 
and RPGServ NPC bot, for 0.2 version release.

Lachesis is a program which will connect to an IRC server and is accessed
through commands sent via private message or DCC chat. When complete, a
full IRCRPG combat engine will be provided. At the time of writing, Lachesis
has only basic abilities to connect to IRC and handle user commands.

This program is free software provided under the terms of the GNU General
Public License, version 2, or at your option, any later version. It is
provided in the hopes that it will be useful, but with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranties of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details please see the file COPYING
that is distributed with this program.

Authorship:

  The main program is, at the time of writing, wholly authored by
  Marcus Dennis <marcus@anari.cedar-rapids.ia.us>.

  The program previously used the parsecfg library for reading and 
  generating data files; parsecfg is written by Yuuki NINOMIYA 
  <gm@debian.or.jp>.
  The interface to parsecfg may be found in loaddata.cc in version
  0.1 of lachesis.

  The program previously used the botnet library for interfacing with 
  IRC servers; botnet is written by Christophe CALMEJANE 'Ze KiLleR 
  / SkyTech' <zekiller@skytech.org>.
  For a while there may be remnants to this interface, but they are being
  removed in favor of a native interface. The actual interface may be found
  in version 0.1 of lachesis.

  The combat engine incorporated in this program is designed by
  Pteryx; implementation done by Marcus Dennis.
