REQUIREMENTS
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   Alicq requires Tcl/Tk 8.3 or higher and BWidget 1.3 or higher.

   If you need HTTP proxy with authorization support, you have to install
   tcllib package (HTTP proxy without authorization can work without tcllib).

   If you need sound support, you need to have Snack library installed.
   
   If Tcl/Tk is not installed on your system, and pre-built package is not
   available for your operation system or distributive, you can download 
   source of binary package of Tcl/Tk from SourceForge (tcl.sourceforge.net)
   or ActiveState (www.activestate.com).

   BWidget package can be downloaded from tcllib.sourceforge.net. It is also 
   included in ActiveState Tcl package.
   
   tcllibrary can be downloaded from tcllib.sourceforge.net. It is also 
   included in ActiveState Tcl package.

   Snack sound library can be downloaded from
   http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/download.html. It is also included in
   ActiveState Tcl package.
   

PLATFORM SPECIFIC NOTES
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*  Unix

   Most popular Unix systems has pre-built versions of Tcl/Tk in their 
   distributions.

   Currently Alicq runs only in X envirionment (though this is not always
   necessary).

   If you are using Linux, you can try to find Alicq packaged for your 
   distribution (Debian and ALT Linux in particular).

   To try experimental OpenPGP encryption support, install GnuPG.

   To install Alicq from tar.gz or tar.bz2 files, you should
   simply unpack archive file, cd to alicq directory and run ./alicq

   You can move alicq files according to Unix hierarchy as well:
	   alicq -> ${prefix}/bin/alicq
	   icq,lib -> ${tclpath}
	   data -> ${prefix}/share/alicq
	   doc -> ${prefix}/share/doc/alicq or whenever you want

   where ${prefix} is usually /usr or /usr/local, but can be any,
         ${tclpath} is any path where Tcl looks for packages (usually
	 it is /usr/lib, but can also be /usr/share/tcl).

   On startup alicq will look for startup files ~/.alicq/alicqrc or 
   ~/.alicqrc (not recommended, kept for compatibility), unless startup
   file given explicitly via -config command-line option.
   
*  Windows

   Alicq whould work on any Windows of 9x or NT/2000/XP families.

   To install alicq, just extract files from tar.gz, tar.bz2 or zip archive
   with WinZip to preferred folder, and open alicq from it using wish.

   On startup alicq will look for startup file alicq.cfg in
   %USERPROFILE%\alicq folder and alicq working directory.

   If systems which does not support locales, or have wrong locale setting,
   do not use encodings module, but provide desired encoding explicitly
   in startup file, e.g:

   	pset Global:ICQ:Info|encoding cp1251

*  MacOS-X

   Installation is same as for Unix. 
   
   MacOS-X bundles is not awailable for now, thus alicq can be stared from 
   terminal or from Wish sell.

* MacOS classic

   No one tried yet.

