                                XQF v0.9.0
                              (July 31, 1999)

DESCRIPTION
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XQF is Quake/QuakeWorld/Quake2/Quake3 server browser and launcher for X11.
It uses the GTK+ (http://www.gimp.org/gtk) toolkit.
XQF is a front-end to QStat, a program by Steve Jankowski.

Development platform: Debian/Linux (glibc2.1), XFree86 3.3.3, GTK+ 1.2.

Features:
  - Supports Quake, QuakeWorld, Quake2, Quake3: Arena, Hexen2, HexenWorld, 
      Sin, Half-Life
  - Uses QStat to communicate with masters/servers
  - Displays server rules and player info
  - Players and servers sorting
  - Favorite servers list
  - Simple filtering for servers
  - Player Filter (Buddy Lists)
  - Player name, color, skin and model selection
  - QuakeWorld skin visualization with coloring
  - Custom configs
  - Decodes and displays extended bit-field server flags (dmfalgs, 
      teamplay, etc...)
  - Remote server administration tool (rcon) for QuakeWorld, HexenWorld,
      Quake2, Quake3: Arena, Half-Life, Sin servers


REQUIREMENTS
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 - A UNIX computer and C compiler (gcc)
 - X11 (X Window System)
 - GTK+ 1.2.0+ http://www.gtk.org
 - QStat 2.2b or 2.3[cd] http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html
 - [Optionally] wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/ to retrieve server 
   listings from the Web
 - [Optionally] gzip http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html 
   or bzip2 http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ 
   (see -DCOMPRESSOR_XXX compilation options)


COMPILATION
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Untar the xqf-X.X.XX.tar.gz archive, change directory to xqf-X.X.XX,

Edit EXTRA_FLAGS and INSTALL_ROOT variables in Makefile.

"make", "make install"


USAGE
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QStat 2.2b or 2.3[cd] is required.  It must be in your $PATH.
QStat home page is http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html

QStat 2.3 requires -DQSTAT23 option to be used in compile time.
*DISABLE* it if you use XQF with QStat2.2

Server list navigation:
 - Left double-click launches game on selected server.
 - Right click pops up server option menu.
 - Middle click selects one server and refreshes its information.

Right now XQF has built-in list of master servers, no way to change 
it without recompilation.  It will be changed soon.

XQF can be customized via GTK's rc files.  XQF parses files
/etc/gtkrc, $HOME/.gtkrc, $HOME/.qf/gtkrc.

Please send bug reports or suggestions to roma@botik.ru


AVAILABILITY
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  http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/
  ftp://ftp.linuxgames.com/pub/xqf/


COPYRIGHT
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XQF is Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Roman Pozlevich <roma@botik.ru>

Copying is allowed under the terms of GNU General Public License.  
See the file COPYING for more details.


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Roman Pozlevich <roma@botik.ru>

