this directory contains various patches that have been sent to
the ircII project for possible inclustion, as well as other 
interesting tools useful for ircii.

they are detailed below, but, beware that they may or may not work,
or even patch cleanly.

check_load - a patch to allow fascist administrators to make their
users client's automatically exit if the machine load average gets
higher than a pre-defined limit.  this patch is not scheduled for
inclusion in to any future ircII release.

random_nick - patch to allow ircII to randomly choose a nickname
when one is required "immediately".  this patch will probably not
be included in future ircII.

noansi.c - program to remove dos ansi colour sequences.

the colour support has been integrated.

the japanese support has been integrated.