
                Relay-JFC Prerelease Version 0.41-Beta
                           April 22, 1998

                               README

                 Copyright 1998 by David M. Johnson
                    djohnson@virtual-online.com

Relay-JFC is a free IRC chat client with a user-friendly and intuitive 
graphical user interface.  Since Relay-JFC is written in Java, it will 
run on any operating system that supports a JavaVM.  Relay-JFC is current 
available as a pre-release. When Relay-JFC Version 1.0 is released, full 
source code will be provided under the terms of the Perl-inspired Artistic 
License.  See the file artistic-license.txt for more information on 
this license.

   Features

   - Multiple window interface
   - Console window for server messages
   - Color coded message display, you choose the colors
   - Support for WHOIS, VERSION, KICK, BAN and OP commands
   - Persistent user settings

   Limitations

   - No DCC support
   - Does not provide list of channels
   - Intermitent freeze-ups after using Join Channel dialog
	
REQUIREMENTS

- Javasoft Java JDK 1.1.5 compatible VM and class libraries.  You can
  download the JDK 1.1.5 at no cost from www.javasoft.com.

- Javasoft JFC/Swing 1.0.1 class libraries.  You can down JFC/Swing at
  no cost from http://www.javasoft.com/products/jfc

INSTALLATION

- Once you uncompress the zip or tar file that you downloaded, you will
  see a directory called relay-jfc-0.3 that contains the files readme.txt, 
  artistic-license.txt, relay.jar, relay.sh and relay.bat.  

- Before you run Relay-JFC you must make sure that the your classpath
  is set correctly.  Your classpath must include JDK 1.1.5 and Swing 1.0.1 
  classes. 

   Windows example: if you have the JDK installed in C:\jdk115 and 
   Swing installed in C:\swing101 then your classpath should look like this:

   classpath = C:\jdk115\lib\classes.zip;C:\swing101\swingall.jar

   Windows example: if you have the JDK installed in /home/jdk115 
   and Swing installed in /home/swing101 then your classpath should 
   look like this: 

   classpath = /home/jdk115/lib/classes.zip:/home/swing101/swingall.jar

- You can start Relay-JFC from the relay directory by using the relay.bat 
  file if you are running Windows or relay.sh file if you are running UNIX.

PROBLEMS AND BUG REPORTS

Please report any problems, bugs or questions about Relay-JFC to me at 
the e-mail address shown above.  Thanks for trying Relay-JFC.

