Dolphin
   
   Introduction!
   Dolphin is an IRC client, written in Java. It probably has numerous
   of bugs, so don't expect it to work fine all the time. If you have
   any comments or suggestions or want to report bugs, you can send me
   an e-mail at nonsens@dds.nl.
   
   How do I fire it up?
   For starters...you must be able to run Java-applets. You can't use a
   browser like Netscape Navigator, or Microsoft Internet Explorer,
   because they have some sort of internal protection against network
   stuff. As far as I know, the only way you can start this baby up, is
   to do it with the Java Developers Kit, or run JavaOS. If you have the
   Java Developers Kit, you can start Dolphin up by typing "java
   Dolphin". This should work, unless you haven't set your CLASSPATH
   environment, or don't have a path pointing to where-ever your
   JDK-binaries are.
   
   How do I connect to an IRC server?
   After you have started up Dolphin, and you have the Dolphin
   serverwindow on your screen, you should fill in your favorite server
   where it says "Server:", and you're nickname where it says
   "Nickname:". After you have done this, you should press the button in
   the top-left, where it says "Connect". After you have pressed it, you
   should see a lot of text scrolling in the serverwindow. When that's
   finished, you can join a channel, where it says "Channel:", by typing
   a channelname. If you are new to IRC, you might want to type
   "#ircnewbies", where it says "Channel:", and hit enter. I can (most
   times) be found on the channels #house, and #digistad, with the
   nickname "Pino666".
   
   Does Dolphin have some implemented commands?
   Sure it does. Dolphin has a basic set of commands. Not all of them
   though, but they will come (send me a list of commands that are
   missing, or that you would like to see implemented). The implemented
   commands at this time are:
   
   /me /whois /msg /kick /mode /ctcp /topic /list /kill /nick /quit
   /invite /notice /who /join /part /oper
   
   As I said, there are more to come, and you will be able to make them
   yourself (aliases), but this will be possible in a future release.
   
   Anything else I need to know?
   Well...I have resolved a few problems, which occured in the previous
   (0.1a) version, but there are some bugs and problems, which I haven't
   resolved yet. You can still join only one channel at a time, talk to
   one person at a time (unless you use /msg), and can only have one DCC
   Chat window active. I hope this will be fixed in the next version. In
   the serverwindow...if you type a line which starts with a slash (/),
   Dolphin will think it is a command. Anything else type in the
   serverwindow-commandline, Dolphin will send it directly to the server
   (RAW commands). Your loginname will be the same as your nickname,
   unless you run an identd server. All loginnames will be converted to
   lowercase, so if your nickname is 'Dolphin', your loginname will
   become 'dolphin'. Still no scripts. The "Setup", "DCC Chat" and "DCC
   Send" buttons don't work. These will be used in the future. You can
   however receive DCC Chat's, but you can't send them (I seem to have
   some problem converting addresses 127.0.0.1 => 2130706433). If you
   try to resize the window, the widgets will change from their original
   place.
   
   
   
   - Maurice Nonnekes -