Author: Andrew Burke <ab012f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>

Yeah, some stuff should be here... look at CHANGES and INSTALL

Introduction:

	This is VERY early alpha software.  It is meant to eventually become
a fairly extendible interface for icq from the command line.

Intent:

	I wanted a command line icq client that could possibly be used
as a gateway between irc and icq.  So basically I jobbered this puppy
up.  As it stands, it will only send messages, and at the suggestion
of different people on #slashdot, i've been thinking of ways to:

   - i can only hope that some gracious soul out there makes this
     thing all gnu autoconf friendly, and fixes my horrible Makefile,
     and sends me the changes... because it's in a pretty freakin' sad
     state...
   - make it able to recieve messages
   - run nicely in the background
   - perhaps let incoming icq msgs be piped through other programs
   - this stuff belongs in a TODO

erm, so then... how to make this work with BitchX:

  alias icq { exec cicq $0- }

basically... it might be mildly different for you... anyone who
bothers to figure out how to do it with EPIC or other irc clients,
drop me a line.  Oh, and you get serious props if you get this to
build on another OS (other than linux...).  If you do, send me the
diffs or whatnot and i'll put them in.

Thanks:

   - Tom Guptill <tgpt@pas.rochester.edu> for the original concept of
     building a gateway between icq and irc... of course, his
     intentions were thoroughly evil :>

 #slashdot:
   - slim for the ideas about the daemon stuff
   - nemo for his ideas on the same subject
   - Sin for his preaching on open and closed software... :>
   - MbM for being confused, yet offering his 486 up to the bandwidth gods


