Welcome to my second release of the chat software "Pidgin"! Pidgin was formerly
known as "Gaim", but had to be renamed because of legal reasons.
Pidgin is an IM client that supports many protocols, including AIM, ICQ, XMPP,
MSN and Yahoo. Pidgin is NOT endorsed by, nor affiliated with, AOL nor any other
company in ANY way.

Homepage: http://pidgin.im


Features
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  * Supported protocols:

    - AIM
    - Gadu-Gadu (untestet)
    - Google Talk (untestet)
    - GroupWise (untestet)
    - ICQ
    - IRC
    - MSN
    - MySpaceIM (untestet)
    - QQ (untestet)
    - SIMPLE (untestet)
    - Sametime (untestet)
    - XMPP (untestet)
    - Yahoo (untestet)
    - Zephyr (untestet)


  * Included plugins:

    - autorecon:
      When you are kicked offline, this reconnects you.

    - cap:
      Contact availability prediction plugin.

    - convcolors:
      Customize colors in the conversation window.

    - docklet:
      Displays an icon for Gaim in the system tray.

    - extplacement:
      Restrict the number of conversations per windows, optionally separating
      IMs and Chats.

    - gestures:
      Allows support for mouse gestures in conversation windows.

    - gtkbuddynote:
      Stores notes on particular buddies.

    - history:
      Shows recently logged conversations in new conversations.

    - iconaway:
      Iconifies the buddy list and your conversations when you go away.

    - idle:
      Allows you to hand-configure how long you've been idle for.

    - joinpart:
      Hides extraneous join/part messages.

    - log_reader:
      Includes other IM clients' logs in the log viewer.

    - markerline:
      Draw a line to indicate new messages in a conversation.

    - newline:
      Prepends a newline to displayed message.

    - notify:
      Provides a variety of ways of notifying you of unread messages.

    - offlinemsg:
      Save messages sent to an offline user as pounce.

    - pidginrc:
      Provides access to commonly used gtkrc settings.

    - psychic:
      Psychic mode for incoming conversation.

    - relnot:
      Checks periodically for new releases.

    - sendbutton:
      Conversation window send button.

    - spellchk:
      Replaces text in outgoing messages according to user-defined rules.

    - ssl-gnutls, ssl-nss, ssl:
      SSL support.

    - statenotify:
      Notifies in a conversation window when a buddy goes or returns from away
      or idle.

    - ticker:
      A horizontal scrolling version of the buddy list.

    - timestamp:
      Adds iChat-style timestamps to conversations every N minutes.

    - timestamp_format:
      Customizes the message timestamp formats.

    - xmppconsole:
      Send and receive raw XMPP stanzas.

  * Foreign plugins:

    - guifications:
      The end all, be all, toaster popup plugin.


  For more informations open the plugin manager window!


Additional informations
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  * Pidgin uses the amiga device "RANDOM:" to generate random numbers in the
    SSL code. This device is mounted automatically in "Start_pidgin.bat", if
    not already done. "RANDOM" is located in "Sys:Storage/DOSDrivers" by
    default.


Installation
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  The X11 environment AmiCygnix version 1.0 (or higher) must be installed
  before! AmiCygnix is available on OS4-depot (http://os4depot.net).

  To install the package, just click on the "Install"-icon. The data will be
  installed into the AmiCygnix package. Afterwards you can find the programs in
  "Cygnix:Software/Pidgin-2.5.2". To launch the program doubleclick on
  "Start_pidgin.bat".


Problems
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  None known.


Donations
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  If you like to support my work, you can make a donation by using paypal:

   http://www.schwan-clan.de/amiga/Donate.html

  Thanks!


Thanks to...
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  ... Hans Verkuil for his initial port of X11R6.3 to OS 3.x
  ... Stephen Fellner for beta-testing
  ... Yakov Mindelis for beta-testing