
Warning:  This is a "static" build of IWar using the Cygwin 
environment!   Considering you are not building from source, 
you have to ask yourself,  how much do you trust me?  I have
not added any "funky" code to this .EXE,  but why not just 
get the source and build it yourself?

For usage,  please see the README.USAGE file that's included with
this archive.   This is from the source tree of IWar. 

Before we begin,  it should be noted that this is based off the 
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 version 1.5.18(0.132/4/2).  Complete source code for
the CYGWIN1.DLL can be obtained from http://www.cygwin.com.  Like
IWar,  it is licenses under GPL/GNU.

Before we jump to the "how to install section",   as yourself why
you're not just compiling this from source and running it yourself?
I _highly_ advise you to download and install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com)!
It's extremely useful,  and very well done.   If you do decided to
go that route,  you'll want to do a "full install" of Cygwin,  or 
at the minimum,  install the development tools.   Once that is done, 
you can compile and use IWar just like in a *nix environment! 
(./configure && make && make install). 

If for some reason you are not able to install *nix (Linux/OpenBSD/etc)
or Cygwin on your workstation,   this archive will allow you to still
use IWar in a Windows environment.  

Several notes:
==============

MySQL is _NOT_ included in this build.  You'll only be able to log to a
flat ASCII file. (This may change in the future).

Very limited testing of IWAR.EXE has been done.  It appears to work fine,
but there are no guarantees. 

Multiple modem support may or may not work. 


Installation:
=============

If you have Cygwin installed on your workstation,  _DO NOT USE THE
CYGWIN1.DLL included within this package!  Use you're Cygwin's installed
CYGWIN1.DLL.  If you do _NOT_ have Cygwin installed,  simply do the
the following. 

1.  Copy the CYGWIN1.DLL to somewhere within your path.  This is _required_
    or IWAR.EXE will no run. 

2.  Build the following directory structure:
    c:\cygwin\usr\local\etc

    In other words,  type:

    mkdir c:\cygwin\
    mkdir c:\cygwin\usr
    mkdir c:\cygwin\usr\local
    mkdir c:\cygwin\usr\local\etc
    
3.  Copy the nessesary IWar files to there locations.  They are:
    iwar.conf,  banners.txt and iwar-blacklist.txt.  This can be done
    by typing:

    copy iwar.conf c:\cygwin\usr\local\etc
    copy banners.txt c:\cygwin\usr\local\etc
    copy iwar-blacklist.txt c:\cygwin\usr\local\etc

4.  Copy IWAR.EXE to somewhere in your path (or run it from it's current
    location).

5.  Enjoy!

